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Vol. 20, No. 50 • Dec. 10–Dec. 17, 2009

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

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Up Front: Target Range tries to protect its rural roots Etc.: Why the Baucus scandal barely registers as sensational Ochenski: The last best chance for climate change regulations

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Vol. 20, No. 50 • Dec. 10–Dec. 17, 2009

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

by the Independent staff

Up Front: Target Range tries to protect its rural roots Etc.: Why the Baucus scandal barely registers as sensational Ochenski: The last best chance for climate change regulations

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The holiday season is set up for a judgmental fat man—or threatening parents—to raise the question of whether, through the year, your cumulative actions register as naughty or nice. We don’t like the options.

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News Letters Rethinking Obama, Baucus and coal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 The Week in Review Tiger’s girl, boxed steaks and a stabbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Briefs Climate change, polling problems and woodstoves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Etc. Why the Baucus scandal hardly registers as sensational. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Up Front First-time home buyers buoy Missoula market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Up Front Target Range tries to maintain its rural roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Ochenski Climate change measures heat up in Copenhagen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Writers on the Range Good riddance, John Stokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Agenda Donate to the Missoula Food Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan The fatty feast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 8 Days a Week Feeling naughty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Mountain High Mount Jumbo’s north and south zones close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Scope Vera tackles the “F” word with full-length debut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Noise Universal Choke Sign, Jerry Joseph, Saviours and Reigning Sound . . . . . .43 Theater Two shows try to bring Shakespeare, Stoppard to life . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 Film Wes Anderson’s tedium transfers to animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Tuesday afternoon in the University Center at the University of Montana.

Q:

This week’s Independent features our annual holiday gift guide, which features more than 20 locally made products. What local item do you prefer to give during the holiday season?

Follow-up: Other than coal, what do you hope not to find under your tree or in your stocking?

Shera Denney: Something I made myself, ’cause I’m broke. I make ceramics, and I like making candles, too. Easy to buy for: I don’t know if I’ve ever gotten a gift I didn’t want. Except maybe fruitcake.

Darah Fogarty: When it comes to local stuff, I get everything in the summer at the farmers’ market.

Don’t break the bank: A tuition hike for next semester. I’m in-state, which is obviously lower than outof-state tuition, but it’s never going to be low.

Ryan Berube: I would give some of my friends who fish lanyards. My neighbor is a flyfishing guide and owns Montucky Lanyards. We make them out of fly-fishing line.

Better than Eddie Bauer: Every year my dad gives me a gift card to GAP. It’s not the best gift ever, but he tries.

Megan Bailly: I can’t think of her name, but there was a lady at the craft fair in the UC this week. She had really cool jewelry. Holiday homebody: Cleaning products.

My husband was going to get me a shower curtain. I nixed that idea.

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Changing the vote It’s no mystery why so many former supporters are disillusioned with President Obama (see “Rethinking the vote,” Nov. 26, 2009). Millions backed Obama in the naïve belief that a vote for Obama was a vote for Medicare for all, a minimum wage increase, uncompromising defense of abortion rights, repeal of repressive legislation from the PATRIOT Act to Taft-Hartley, a moratorium on home and farm foreclosures, an end to the war on drug users, and immediate, unconditional withdrawal from Iraq (and, a few had the audacity to hope, Afghanistan and Korea, as well).

Now we are (predictably) waking up to the realization that the war on poor people from Missoula to Mazar-e-Sharif continues unabated, and the candidate who promised hope and change has become the president who delivers only blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If we are to achieve any of these aims, we will need workers’ councils to help us set priorities and convince organized labor to throw its weight behind implementing a realistic strategy for reversing the direction of the Bush-Obama war drive.

Loren Meyer Missoula

Baucus on right track As a Montana farmer and as a director for CHS Inc., an agricultural cooperative owned by farmers across our state and throughout the U.S., I want to extend my thanks for the support and thoughtful consideration Sen. Max Baucus has demonstrated during the ongoing debate over climate change/cap and trade legislation (see “Cap and trade-off,” Dec. 3, 2009).

This is a very complex issue with significant implications for all agricultural producers and those who serve them. We have a great deal of concern over the current Waxman-Markey Bill, approved earlier this year in the U.S. House. CHS operates a small refinery at Laurel, whose primary markets are agriculture and rural America.

We estimate the economic burden of the House-approved bill on our refinery could be well over $600 million a year.

As a farmer-owned company, CHS has a deeply rooted commitment to environmental stewardship within all of its operations, but we believe there are fairer, more effective and more economically sound means of addressing concern over climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

We appreciate the time Baucus and his staff have devoted to listening to the concerns of small refiners and agricultural

companies like CHS. The senator has a solid understanding of the implications of the House version of the climate bill. In his role as the senior member of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, he has helped create a version of the bill more favorable to those who are important economic contributors to agriculture and energy in this state.

While there is a long road ahead on this issue, those of us in Montana should

Now we “ are (predictably) waking up to the realization that the war on poor people from Missoula to Mazar-e-Sharif continues

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be grateful that Baucus is providing important leadership that understands the needs of this state’s farmers and the businesses that serve them.

Richard Owen Geraldine, Mont.

Forward thinking Montana has oil, coal, tar sands, natural gas and wind energy. We are number two in wind energy potential in the United States, and number one in coal reserves. As Montanans eye these various forms of energy we should look at what will make Montana an economically viable state in the future. Montana is at a crossroads.

Climate change has huge implications for this choice.

Whether Sen. Max Baucus decides to get Montana on board with the future now or later is ultimately up to him. However, choosing coal now will hurt us in the long term. Over the next 40 years, strong climate change legislation will get passed.

The temperature gauge will demand it.

When strong climate change legislation passes, the states that moved toward coal will be in for a harsh correction.

Current buildup of coal coupled with future climate change legislation will result in a bubble in coal.

If the current housing crisis has taught us anything it is that bubbles are not good for the economy. The more we invest into coal the larger the bubble is going to be.

We will watch the temperature climb and further our need for clean energy. We will need to abandon coal. You could call this a run on coal.

If Baucus decides to go with coal now, we will find ourselves in a harsh economic reality in the future. Knowing that fossilfuel use will begin to wane, Montana has a choice. If we pass a weak climate bill today, build our coal infrastructure, and reap the benefits of coal energy now, we will find ourselves in trouble in the future. Coal will be phased out and Montana will have nowhere to go. It is time to look past the bridge of our nose.

Luke Seefeldt Missoula

Here’s an idea I agree that many of the proposals for health care reform are unconstitutional.

Requiring everyone to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. The whole Medicare system is unconstitutional. The social security system is unconstitutional.

It is the duty of all patriotic citizens to defend our country, and they should not expect special rewards for their duty.

Therefore, providing health care to veterans is also unconstitutional.

What this country needs is a strong, activist Supreme Court that will perform the duty clearly spelled out in the Constitution. That is, make a ruling on all the actions of the executive branch and all the laws passed by Congress on whether or not they are constitutional. Let’s do away with the cumbersome case-by-case legal system that has served us well for more than 200 years, and return to the lifestyle our forefathers envisioned for us in the 1700s. Or, better yet, let us return to the lifestyle the ancient tribes of Israel enjoyed.

Steve Schombel Missoula

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by Cathrine L. Walters

The tabloid Life & Style alleges that superstar golfer Tiger Woods had an extramarital affair with Missoula native Kalika Moquin, a marketing manager for a Las Vegas nightclub. Moquin, 27, tells the paper, “It’s not appropriate for me to comment one way or the other. At this time, I’m just choosing to focus on my job.”

• Thursday, December 3 The Missoula Municipal Court’s recently legalized Food for Fines Day yields just 1,070 pounds of grub for the Missoula Food Bank. The haul is disappointingly small compared to a 10,000-pound total donated through the same food drive two years earlier.

• Friday, December 4 Despite icy evening air, art seekers brave the sidewalks to check out First Friday exhibits across downtown. The Brunswick’s holiday open house offers one warm escape with new work from Leslie V.S. Millar, Scott Sutton and Janet Whaley, as well as ample amounts of wine, cookies and cheese.

• Saturday, December 5 Target Range School hosts an all-day holiday bazaar with vendors filling the gymnasium. Another apparently unofficial vendor patrols the parking lot in his pickup truck, peddling “extra steaks” by the box.

When one Indy staffer declines by saying he doesn’t normally buy ribeyes from a moving vehicle, the meat man exclaims, “Your loss, wussy.”

• Sunday, December 6 ESPN announces that the Griz will play Appalachian State in the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals at Washington-Grizzly Stadium Saturday, Dec. 12, in a nationally televised game. The Griz advanced with a 51–0 drubbing of Stephen F. Austin the previous day, while ASU beat defending champion Richmond 35–31.

• Monday, December 7 David Whaley appears in Missoula Justice Court facing one felony assault with a weapon charge after allegedly stabbing another man outside the Elbow Room bar early Saturday morning. Police say the 27year-old St. Ignatius man was arguing with his girlfriend when another man tried to intervene, prompting Whaley to stab him in the stomach.

• Tuesday, December 8 Hundreds of admirers and curiosity seekers wait for hours in sub-zero temperatures outside Borders Books in Billings to have former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sign a copy of her new book, Going Rogue.

Palin is scheduled to appear at the Fred Meyer in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Thursday, Dec. 10.

Mallards find open water among the ice at Brennan’s Wave on Tuesday, and a little bit of warmth under their wings. Despite wind chill warnings from the National Weather Service and subzero temperatures, the early week arctic blast delivers no record lows in Missoula.

Air quality

Woodstove woes Temps in Missoula dropped well below freezing this week, prompting homeowners to crank up the heat. But for some solid-fuel users, increased energy efficiency just isn’t an option.

Owners of wood-burning stoves grandfathered into Missoula County’s Air Stagnation Zone will spend another winter belching high levels of particulate into the air. Woodstoves installed before regulation changes in the mid-’90s are exempt from a woodstove ban in the city’s airshed, but cannot be swapped for newer stoves that burn more efficiently.

The local law leaves Guy Hanson, owner of stove outlet Axmen, frustrated. Breakthroughs in wood-burning technology in the past two decades have led to U.S. Environmental Protection Agencycertified woodstoves that release particulates at or below the Missoula City/County Health Department’s standards.

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were under review, but to no avail. The county’s Air Quality Advisory Council could pick up the discussion in coming months.

Environmental Health Supervisor Shannon Therriault explains that the health department’s long-term goal is to cut emissions in the Air Stagnation Zone completely. The department requires removal of grandfathered woodstoves as houses change hands—at an average of once every seven years, Therriault says. Roughly 900 remain active to date.

“Better emissions is good, except we’re working toward no emissions from those woodstoves, and that they’d be removed from those houses entirely,” Therriault says. “It might be that we need to look at a way to do that faster.”

County Air Quality Specialist Ben Schmidt adds that rewriting local regulations to allow homeowners to replace older woodstoves with updated models would require consultation with the EPA. Hanson admits there are risks involved in the type of swap-out that woodstove users have pitched. People could take advantage of lighter regulations to sneak woodstoves into homes that don’t

presently have one. But he counters that pollution in the airshed can’t get much worse.

“I’m kind of frustrated by the fact that these folks are locked in and there’s nothing they can do about it,” Hanson says.

Alex Sakariassen

Voting

Polling place predicament As more voters use absentee ballots, election judges prove tougher to find and ballot-counting technology becomes increasingly expensive, Missoula County is proposing to eliminate 13 polling places.

“I’m trying not to do it so drastically that people lynch me,” said Missoula County’s Clerk and Recorder Vicki Zeier at a recent meeting, acutely aware that her proposal will raise some hackles.

Polling places on the block include the County Courthouse; the University of Montana; Emma Dickenson, Franklin, Jefferson, Sunset, Woodman, Washington, DeSmet and Prescott schools; as well as Evaro, Nine Mile and Petty Creek fire stations.

Zeier said the locations were selected based on a

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variety of factors, including a limited number of registered voters in the district, another polling place nearby or accessibility challenges.

A primary instigator to the change is absentee voting, which nearly doubled in Missoula County between 2006 and 2008. Zeier said if the existing proposal went forward, the county would save roughly $19,000 per election, and avoid a one-time $75,000 expenditure necessary to invest in new ballot counting machines.

But some on the Election Advisory Committee voiced concern the cuts could curb voter participation.

“When you have polling places, in a lot of ways, more is better,” said City Councilman Ed Childers.

John Bacino from voter advocacy group Forward Montana also expressed several concerns. Specifically, the plan is moving too fast, he said.

“There’s going to be one day for public comment and that one day just happens to be in the middle of finals week,” he argued.

Bacino added the polling places slated for elimination are largely in lower income and student-occupied districts. He feared the move might disenfranchise young and poor voters.

But Zeier maintained the proposal is necessary in the face of dwindling demand.

After the high turnout during the November 2008 election, fewer than a handful of voters have shown up at some polling places for school and primary elections. In those cases, it’s not just a resource issue—voter secrecy is compromised, too.

County commissioners will hear public comments on the issue Dec. 16. Any changes made will begin during the June 2010 primary elections.

Jessica Mayrer

E-tailing

Vann’s on a roll Holiday season 2009 has one Missoula retailer already one-upping itself left and right.

Vann’s Marketing Manger Matt Ranta says the local retailer broke company records for Internet sales on Black Friday, only to have the new records trumped by all-time highs on Cyber Monday. Ranta says sales remained the strongest in Vann’s’ online history throughout last week.

“We’re hopeful that this is going to end up being our best holiday season ever,” Ranta says.

The holiday business boom follows a national

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breakthrough for the company last month, when Consumer Reports ranked Vann’s among the top online retailers for electronics in the country. That rating put the 48-year-old Montana business next to the likes of Best Buy and Amazon.com.

“It’s definitely a milestone in a lot of ways,” Ranta says. “We are experiencing sales and traffic akin to what we’re used to and beating numbers from years past, which has been for a while—with the down economy—something that’s difficult for everyone to achieve.”

The good news at Vann’s this holiday season mirrors the marked rise in e-commerce nationwide.

According to marketing analysts at Coremetrics, online sales among “e-tailers” this Cyber Monday increased 13.7 percent over Cyber Monday 2008.

Additional information from comScore Inc. shows a 5 percent increase over last year in post-CyberMonday sales.

Economic concerns, however, have negatively impacted one aspect of Internet sales: The average amount online shoppers spend per order has dropped 1 percent since 2008, as reported by comScore. A 6-percent increase in the total number of consumers has made up for the lag.

Ranta says the average order value at Vann’s shows the same drop. Still, Christmas 2009 has brought the company to a turning point.

“We’re hopeful that what’s happened is that the things we’ve focused on for years—customer service, value, selection, the fact we’re a tax-free seller—

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have in a way reached a critical mass for us and that the word will continue to spread,” Ranta says.

Alex Sakariassen

Climate

Where’s the extreme cold?

As world leaders convene in Copenhagen, Denmark, to debate the details of what could become a new international climate change treaty, and as Congress hammers out legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of climate change in western Montana begin to come into focus.

A recent study of temperature trends over the past 100-plus years conducted by five Montana scientists shows a decrease in extremely cold days and an increase in extremely hot days. Extremely cold days (less than or equal to –17.8 degrees Celsius) cease on average 20 days earlier and decline in number, the researchers found, while extremely hot days (greater than or equal to 32 degrees Celsius) show a three-fold increase in number and a 24day increase in the seasonal window during which they occur.

The study also shows that western Montana has experienced a 1.33-degree Celsius rise in annual average temperatures, almost twice the 0.74-degree rise in global temperatures.

“The take-home message,” says researcher Greg Pederson of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, “is what a 1.33degree Celsius average annual change means in terms of changing extremes—both the heat extremes that drive things like bark beetle outbreaks, increase probabilities of large forest fires and stress our fisheries, and also the loss of the cool events that maintain snowpack…and also perform the function of killing off bark beetles when you get a lot of really cold days in a row.”

The researchers state that “over the course of this next century we are committed to a warming climate,” but a new Harris Poll finds that barely half of Americans—51 percent—agree that the release of carbon dioxide and other gases is leading to global warming, down from 71 percent just two years ago.

“I think those polls reflect more how stressed people are about the state of the economy and a lot of other things in our nation that it seems less important, at least now, to think about things like climate change,” Pederson says.

Matthew Frank

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Number of votes received by the Griz in the latest Associated Press college football poll. AP voters usually only rank Football Bowl Subdivision teams, but someone saw fit to include the undefeated Griz, who square off against Appalachian State in a Football Championship Subdivision semifinal on Saturday.

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We thought the news of Tiger Woods’ alleged extramarital affair with Missoula native Kalika Moquin would be the only tabloid fodder coming out of Montana last week, but then Sen. Max Baucus got caught in the same sort of sand trap. Thanks to a report from MainJustice.com, we learned that Baucus’ current girlfriend, Melodee Hanes, was also his one-time nominee for Montana’s U.S. attorney position. Nothing like red-hot headlines to keep us warm during these frigid days.

Baucus issued a quick statement last Friday clarifying that he began dating Hanes in mid-2008, after he and his then-wife separated. He also declared that Hanes deserved the nomination on the merits of her legal work, and their relationship had nothing to do with his support.

Baucus failed to explain, however, why he never divulged the extent of his relationship with someone up for the top federal law enforcement position in the state. Former Missoulian reporter Jodi Rave revealed on her blog that she questioned Baucus’ staff about Hanes in March regarding both the nomination and alleged relationship. Baucus only responded when Rave threatened that a story would run the following day, and even then Hanes simply dropped out of the running for the position.

No word from Baucus about the relationship at the time— and, for that matter, no follow-up from the Missoulian on what would have been quite a scoop.

But even assuming Baucus’ relationship with Hanes had nothing to do with her nomination, her credentials still raise questions. According to a report on DailyKos.com, Hanes had a controversial track record before moving to Montana. While living in Iowa, she and ex-husband Thomas Bennett, then the state’s medical examiner, worked in cahoots to make sure alleged child abusers were found guilty—sometimes despite evidence that might prove otherwise. A Court of Appeals review of cases involving both Hanes and Bennett referred to “actions of prosecutors that violate the fundamental notions of fair play on which our legal system is based.” A District Court judge found one of Hanes’ requests to withhold medical records from the defense team “suspicious at best.” Does that sound like U.S. attorney material?

The sad part about this entire episode is that, unlike the tabloid-worthy Tiger Woods story, every aspect of the Baucus scandal barely registers as sensational.

Whether it’s health care, climate change or girlfriends, questioning the senator’s motives has become par for the course.

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Real estate rebound First-time homebuyers buoy Missoula market

by Matthew Frank

“I’d say we’re starting to see a little bit of a rebound right now,” she says, “but not as much as I thought we would with the extension of the tax credits.”

But it’s been enough, Corwin says, to justify keeping on the staffers who were rehired back in January to deal with the rush of refinances when interest rates dropped to their lowest levels in decades.

Those are the same staffers who were let go in October 2008 during the depths of the housing market crash.

Economist Larry Swanson of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West calls the credit “hugely important.”

Combined with record-low mortgage rates and relatively soft prices, it’s created a buyers’ market.

“All things considered,” Swanson says, “it’s a very good time for firsttime homebuyers to get into home ownership. The homes that people own are, for most families, their single largest source of wealth. So it’s important for young families and young adults who can to get into home ownPhoto by Cathrine L. Walters ership. And if this can be done under Bethany Swanson used the $8,000 federal First-Time Homebuyer Credit to relatively favorable terms, so much help purchase her home. Real estate experts believe buyers like Swanson are the better. And that’s what we have driving the housing market’s recovery. now.

“This opportunity won’t last forwouldn’t have done it—I wouldn’t have a lot of people who wanted to take advan- ever,” he continues. “Interest rates will in all likelihood begin to edge up as we move been able to do it—otherwise. The tax tage of the tax credit.”

Wahlberg adds that the Missoula num- toward early spring and summer and as the credit is providing me the security cushion I need so that if anything does happen to bers are in line with cities around the national economy begins to show increasing signs of recovery.” my house, I can make sure that I can afford country.

“We’ve seen this nationally, too,” he Wahlberg expects Missoula will be on to fix it. Otherwise, I just don’t have says. “It’s what they call a bifurcated mar- the leading edge of the recovery. enough saved to feel comfortable.”

“I think as we proceed forward this Count Swanson among the many ket, where you have certain segments that Missoulians who have taken advantage of are really strong, and certain segments that winter and spring,” he says, “it’s probably the “credit”—it actually reduces a taxpay- are lagging a little bit. Missoula mirrors going to be much like this fall has been— er’s tax bill or increases his or her refund that national trend quite a bit, where the busy, lots of people looking, a little bit dollar for dollar—and, in turn, sparked a upper end price range—over $350,000, more demand than supply in a lot of cases. $400,000—is still lagging, but the first time I fully expect that the first half of 2010 is recent real estate market rebound.

A c c o r d i n g t o t h e M i s s o u l a homebuyer market…has helped stabilize going to be pretty fast and furious.”

And no doubt that $8,000 check from Organization of Realtors (MOR), 101 our market considerably.”

With the credit stabilizing the housing the Internal Revenue Service will be spent homes sold in Missoula County in November, up from just 41 in November market, businesses that depend on the just as fast and furiously by first-time 2008. The average number of days a home industry, like local lenders and title compa- homeowners. Bethany Swanson, for one, plans to buy new windows to replace the stayed on the market dropped from 157 to nies, are also seeing steadier numbers.

“I can say that the First Time Home- ones the December cold has all but frosted 123. Year-to-date, Missoula County sales stood at 1,062, one shy of 2008’s total, but Buyer credit is being used frequently as I over, and put the rest of the money into an still well short of the high of 1,722 in 2006. believe all the purchases I have had over emergency fund.

“I never thought I’d be able to buy a The median home price has dropped from the last few months are folks taking $217,500 in 2008 to $212,000 so far in advantage of that, as well as investors with house in Missoula with a single-income and cash reserves snapping up rentals at low working in the environmental nonprofit 2009.

Local housing professionals say all of prices,” says Julie Lapham of L&L world,” says Swanson, who works as the outreach manager for the Wild Rockies these trends are driven largely by the tax Mortgage.

Vicki Corwin, vice president of Stewart Field Institute and as an adjunct professor at credit, which lawmakers last month expanded and extended until the middle Title in Missoula, says that out of all of the the University of Montana. “I just assumed transactions her company has processed that that was an impossibility for me.” of 2010.

“All of these November closings were so far in 2009, three out of four have been probably people who were writing offers first-time homebuyers. mfrank@missoulanews.com Bethany Swanson sits at a tiny kitchen table in her new, 550-square-foot home on Dakota Street in Missoula, a home she closed on in late September, just a couple months before the federal First-Time Homebuyer Credit was set to expire.

“It was the reason I bought my house,” says Swanson, 31, of the $8,000 credit. “I

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in September and October, and that was before the tax credit got extended, and before there was serious talk of a tax credit extension,” explains MOR President-elect Brint Wahlberg of RE/MAX Realty Consultants. “I can speak from personal experience—with my November volume being up considerably as well—that we had

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Growing pains Target Range moves to protect its remaining rural roots

by Jessica Mayrer

The neighborhood plan next goes before county commissioners for approval, likely in the next several months, Yellow Robe says.

In the meantime, Target Range has successfully preserved a sizeable portion of its fertile farmland. Missoula County reports 21 percent of its total prime agricultural soils are in Target Range, and a sizeable portion of local farmers’ market produce is grown here. Morrison hopes to keep it that way.

“Hopefully, Missoula, if it’s going to continue to grow, it’s going to find another direction that wants to grow,” Morrison says.

For Crawford, however, a significant amount of change has already occurred. She got hooked on Target Range history several years ago, after falling in love with the Little White School House at the corner of South and Clements. Since learning about one of the oldest schools in the state, she’s spent a sizeable chunk of her time sifting through photos and seeking out stories from descendents of Photo by Cathrine L. Walters area homesteaders.

“My goal is to try to preThis lone cottonwood is all that remains of a Target Range grove planted more than 100 years ago. Emblematic of broader changes taking place across the area, serve the history,” she says. the historic tree must be cut down.

“But my main goal is to share the history, because nobody area’s transformations in recent years, the which was developed entirely by Target knows all these stories.”

Crawford then rattles off a list of lone cottonwood is in trouble. A nearby Range residents, so vital. It calls to further ditch that provided its primary water limit development and protect agricultur- quirky Target Range trivia. For example, the Pepper Pot House was once a hotbed source was paved over about a decade al heritage, among other things.

“The plan process is fairly unique. It’s of hooch and ladies during prohibition. ago, and the 86-foot-tall tree has become dehydrated and hollow. Unstable now, it’s the first neighborhood plan actually writ- She says illegal booze was shipped to the ten by the neighborhood itself,” says speakeasy under slats of strawberries, slated to be cut down.

As locals prepare to watch the cotton- Lewis Yellow Robe from Missoula and “the strawberries went under the wood go, other changes are prompting County’s Office of Planning and Grants compost pile.”

Aiming to better preserve stories like circumspection. Dale’s Dairy, a communi- (OPG). “It’s definitely a new way of doing this, Crawford is lobbying the Missoula ty hub and grocery store, was sold in things here.”

The neighborhood association Historic Preservation Commission to desNovember after being in the same family for 37 years. Orchard Homes, which was approached OPG because it felt bottom- ignate Target Range a historic district. It’s originally named after 18,000 fruit trees, up planning was the best way to address especially important to document these stories now, she says, before time further continues to see growth with new homes Target Range’s unique needs.

“Those of us that got this whole thing erodes landmarks and leaves the past perbuilt where the orchards once were. Most significantly, the Target Range started felt that nobody knows a neigh- manently hidden.

Crawford points to the historic Neighborhood Association recently pre- borhood better than the people who live sented a blueprint to help guide growth in it,” says Peggie Morrison, the home- home across from the Little White School House that was recently demolished, in the area over the next 20 years. The owners association president.

The neighborhood rolled its plan out leaving a “For Sale” sign in its place, and proposal came after more than a year of to the city’s Plat Annexation and Zoning the lone cottonwood. Learning the stomeetings and planning.

Target Range resident and budding Committee at the end of October. Though ries, she says, at least helps offset the historian Kris Crawford finds all the the city has no authority over Target losses.

“Knowing the history of it,” Crawford change ironic. One hundred and fifty Range, the meeting provided an opportuyears before Target Range residents wor- nity to brainstorm with people well says, “makes it all the more special.” ried about housing density, water quality versed in the challenges that come from jmayrer@missoulanews.com and urban encroachment, Irish immi- growth.

At Target Range’s historic Little White School House, just one tree remains of what was once a cottonwood grove that dotted the historic school’s South Avenue perimeter at the turn of the 20th century.

For more than 100 years, as the grove died off, the one poplar’s knobby limbs continued to grow, an irresistible invitation to thousands of school kids looking to climb the leafy landmark.

But, in a story emblematic of the

grants settled at the confluence of the Bitterroot and Clark Fork rivers to avoid Missoula’s bustling center.

“They settled this area because it wasn’t downtown where all the uppity ups were,” she says.

Target Range residents today echo a similar, if less pointed, sentiment. They enjoy a rural lifestyle, but accept that growth will continue to be an issue. That’s what makes the new neighborhood plan,

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When it’s 25 below zero, pipes are freezing, cars won’t start and the utility meters are spinning so fast you can’t read the numbers, most Montanans aren’t worrying much about global warming.

Likewise, if you ask your average Montana guy on the street what he thinks about Copenhagen, he’s likely to tell you it’s pretty good snooze—and then ask if you “can spare a dip.” But in Copenhagen, Denmark, some 192 nations have kicked off the U.N.’s twoweek climate change conference that many say is “the last best chance” to deal with global warming.

“The clock has ticked down to zero,” Yvo de Boer, the U.N. climate chief told the worldwide delegates at the opening of the conference. “After two years of negotiations, the time has come to deliver.”

What de Boer hopes to have delivered by the end of the much-ballyhooed conference is a complex array of measures to be taken by both industrialized and developing countries that will slow the pace of global warming through regulation, incentives and investment. It is a noble and challenging goal, but one that many already expect to fall far short of de Boer’s expectations.

Just this week, for instance, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has concluded that greenhouse gases are harmful to humans and will begin to take steps to deal with them. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that greenhouse gases can be regulated under the Clean Air Act and the EPA will now move forward to develop new regulations under that authority. The gases, especially carbon dioxide, are the main contributors to what a vast number of international scientists believe is causing the earth to be so much warmer than in recent history, and are primarily the products of combustion coming from automobiles, power plants, factories and many other sources.

The EPA’s announcement, which cheered environmentalists, was likewise met with broad approval by the delegates to the convention. But here at home, the threats and propaganda have already begun to fly from both politicians and their cronies in the fossil fuel industries.

While the EPA itself has pegged the projected cost of the regulatory measure to be about $60 billion, it also estimated that the benefits would amount to $250 billion.

But that’s not how Thomas Donahue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a fierce critic of the EPA’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gases sees it. “It will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtu-

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ally every major construction and renovation project,” he says. Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, adds, “Such regulations would be intrusive, inefficient and excessively costly.” The thinly veiled implication here is obvious: If industry is forced to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, any costs incurred will be passed directly on to already suffering consumers.

While “ President Bush is gone, it would be a mistake to think that industry’s power has in some way been diminished. It

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hasn’t.

Indeed, so powerful is industry’s influence in American politics that we were the only industrialized nation in the world to refuse to sign the initial climate change treaty—the Kyoto Protocol— which will expire in 2012. As most people know, the relationship between President George W. Bush and the oil industry basically precluded any acknowledgement of human-caused global warming, much less any steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

While President Bush is gone, it would be a mistake to think that industry’s power has in some way been diminished. It hasn’t. Although President Obama has taken a much more enlightened approach to climate change than his predecessor, it remains to be seen if the White House alone can break the industry stranglehold on Congress. As a recent and disturbing example, Montana’s own Max Baucus was the only Democrat to vote against a recent climate change bill in the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. The vote, which came out 11-1, was unanimously boycotted by Republican committee members.

Even more troublesome, Baucus has already announced that he may amend

the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions limitation targets.

“We cannot afford the unmitigated impacts of climate change but we also cannot afford the unmitigated effects of legislation,” he says.

If you’re wondering what Baucus might mean by that statement, just look at his fellow committee member and ranking Republican, Jim Inhofe, whose threats were more blunt: “This bill necessarily will raise the price of gasoline, electricity, food and just about everything else.”

If this sounds a lot like Baucus’ stance on the health care reform bill earlier this year, there may be a good reason. Namely, money. Just as Baucus was singled out for having taken millions of dollars from big pharmaceuticals, insurance and hospital industries, he is likewise connected by a campaign fund umbilical to the fossil-fuel industries.

According to campaign tracking organizations, the U.S. oil and gas industry spent $35 million, the coal industry spent $3.4 million and electric utilities dropped $20 million in campaign coffers last year. Baucus, who is one of the top 10 Senate recipients of oil-industry contributions, has received more than $195,000 since 2000 and has voted with the oil industry 67 percent of the time.

He also took nearly $88,000 from coal companies the last two years.

Just as the health industry dropped millions to kill meaningful health care reform, the fossil fuel industry is spending freely to convince Congress—and Americans—that global warming regulation will be a costly blunder. And it’s working. A recent Pew poll found that only one-third of Americans believe humans are causing global warming and of the 57 percent that believe the planet is getting warmer, only 33 percent believe it’s human caused. That’s significantly down from the past, with the greatest drop coming in the last year since President Obama has taken steps to address the issue.

Copenhagen may well be our “last best chance” on climate change. But here in the Last Best Place, these below-zero temperatures will likely kill more pine beetles than any amorphous goals coming out of Congress or Copenhagen— and that makes the shivering almost worthwhile.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent.

Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Dead air The rise and fall of Montana shock jock John Stokes

by Ray Ring

Environmentalists are “green Nazis… pure, unadulterated satanic evil…vile vomit.”

Does that hateful tone sound familiar?

R adio and television commentar y tycoons—Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and their ilk—often use that kind of language against their targets, including not only environmentalists, but also liberals and gay people. Their broadcasts encourage destructive politics.

But recently, a Western community sent a message indicating that hateful blasts can have repercussions. Tune in to the 600 AM radio frequency in Montana’s Flathead Valley and you hear static now. “Shock jock” John Stokes and his KGEZ station used that frequency for nine years to broadcast vicious attacks against environmentalists–including the “vile vomit” slur quoted above. Stokes also attacked the government and the very notion of respecting the other side in any disagreement. His rants on his daily talk show, “The Edge,” earned nationwide news coverage.

Stokes burned wooden green swastikas to symbolically destroy environmentalists at “anti-Earth Day” rallies in 2001 and 2002. He even implied that his listeners should attack environmentalists and liberals, according to the Missoulian, with lines such as: “Finish them off and make sure they don’t have babies.”

Inevitably, Stokes caused many kinds of people to come together to oppose him. They organized and pressured businesses not to advertise on his radio station, and eventually Stokes went too far.

During a dispute with neighbors who own land where he has radio towers, he accused them on the air of committing bank fraud and perjury. In response, they sued for defamation of character, and last year a jury ordered him to pay them $3.8 million. He also had other debts, his station was reportedly losing money and he admitted that he hadn’t filed tax returns for more than a decade. With all that

weighing on him, he filed for bankruptcy eight months ago.

A bankruptcy judge appeared fed up on Sept. 21, ruling that Stokes had concealed millions of dollars of assets including “vehicles and at least one boat.” The judge appointed a trustee to take over Stokes’ assets and sell them to settle debts.

On Sept. 24, cops seized the radio station and Stokes abruptly signed off. The trustee

still “hasStokes fans. He’s blogging and appearing on other right-wing stations around the country, complaining that his station was

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‘murdered.’

might sell the station or turn its license over to the Federal Communications Commission; the Montana Human Rights Network wants the FCC to yank the license.

Stokes was part of the explosion of right-wing hate radio and TV “news” shows since 1987. That’s the year Republican President Ronald Reagan killed the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine—a requirement that broadcasters over time had to present a balance of points of view. So today the likes of Limbaugh and Beck provide no balance (or accuracy) as they shout that Democratic President Barack Obama is a coward, a communist, a socialist, a treason-

ous Muslim operative and a faker of his birth certificate. Of course, there are progressive commentators who also go too far, but the right-wing talking heads have mastered that tone in the media.

The message is clear: Stokes’ hateful rhetoric was his downfall. Ultimately “he didn’t damage any of his major targets,” says Ben Long, a local political consultant.

Environmentalists, for instance, helped defeat a county commissioner who was a frequent caller on Stokes’ show, and they helped elect a commissioner who is more aligned with their goals. They’ve put together a successful campaign to preserve local land with conservation easements.

Gays and lesbians and their supporters, also targeted by Stokes, staged Kalispell’s first gay pride march last summer.

“This is still a conservative community,” Long says, “but we can have a conversation, good democratic disagreements.”

Stokes still has fans. He’s blogging and appearing on other right-wing stations around the country, complaining that his station was “murdered.” He’s seeking donations to raise $75,000 to hire Bob Barr, a Georgia libertarian lawyer, to handle his appeal of the bankruptcy judge’s order and other court actions. He vows that he’ll be back on the air someday.

Fat chance, says Kate Hunt, a local sculptor who created a website to challenge Stokes’ claims over the years.

“We’re thrilled” that Stokes is off the air, she says. “The sentiment around here is: It’s about time.”

Stokes’ downfall could be seen as an audio milestone in the West’s prolonged amble toward reasonableness. Even better, his fate might encourage more resistance to national loudmouths like Limbaugh and Beck.

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Everybody needs to eat, but not all of us can afford the luxury of heading to the grocery store once or twice a week. This is especially true for the approximately 5,000 clients served every month by the Missoula Food Bank, our city’s 27year-old nonprofit distributor of food for those in need. To break these numbers down even more, about 45 percent of the Food Bank’s clients are employed adults, while 40 percent are children. Add to this the fact that during 2008-2009, the number of clients served was the highest twoyear total in the history of the organization. That’s a lot of need.

This week you can do your part to help meet demand during the Food Bank’s 24th annual holiday drive, the organization’s biggest public push

THURSDAY DECEMBER 10 Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010.

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for nonperishable food and monetary donations. Nick Roberts, the Food Bank’s development director, puts the program’s importance into even greater focus, pointing out that you’re probably helping someone you know.

“Our clients are your neighbors, your coworkers,” he says. “They are just everyday folks trying to do the right thing, just like anybody else.”

—Ira Sather-Olson You can drop off non-perishable food items and/or monetary donations to the Missoula Food Bank, 219 S. Third St. W., up until Dec. 23. Drop off times are: Mon.–Tue. from 8 AM–7 PM and Wed.–Fri. from 8 AM–3 PM.

If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Al-Ateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

If you’re itching to see strong action during climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, meet up with others during the 350 March and Vigil, which meets at 6 PM at the XXXX’s on the north end of Higgins Avenue.

Free. The march will take you past Sen. Tester’s office to Caras Park for the lighted vigil. Bring lights, candles and signs. E-mail Dave at dascmo@yahoo.com.

If you’d like to speak out against the proposed Otter Creek coal mine in southeastern Montana—slated to lease 1.3 billion tons of coal for strip mining—head down to the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM in order to lend your voice to a public hearing on the matter, sponsored by the Sierra Club and others. Free.

Your comments will then be presented to the State Land Board. Call Mike at 839-3333.

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If you have compulsive eating problems seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

Grab a glimpse of the tightly controlled American agricultural/industrial food system during a screening of Food Inc., at 7 PM at Hamilton’s First Christian Church, 328 Fairgrounds Road. Free, with discussion to follow. Call Jill at 642-3601 or visit sustainablelivingsystems.org.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.

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Those who have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on during a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

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MONDAY DECEMBER 14 Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400.

Those looking to control their eating habits can get support from others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 17 Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010.

If you run a nonprofit, or are considering starting one, don’t miss the Missoula Nonprofit Network workshop “Major Donor Management and Solicitation,” which runs from 11:30 AM–1 PM at the MonTec Conference Room, 1121 E. Broadway St. $10/Free members of the Missoula Nonprofit Network. RSVP with Leah by e-mailing sits@mountainhomemt.org.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also e-mail entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police investigating a drive-by shooting at a home in Buchanan, Wis., found auto glass in the street and deduced the shooter had forgotten to lower his car window before firing five shots. Appleton’s Post-Crescent reported that a check of area auto glass repair shops led to Andrew J. Burwitz, 20, who admitted shooting at the house, where his exgirlfriend lived.

BIONIC BOTTOM - After suffering massive internal injuries from a car accident, Ged Galvin, 55, needed a colostomy bag, until British surgeons rebuilt his rectum. The Daily Telegraph reported that the medical team at the Royal London Hospital removed a muscle from above Galvin’s knee, wrapped it around his sphincter and then attached electrodes to the nerves that Galvin operates using a remote control that he carries in his pocket. “It’s like a chubby little mobile phone,” he said. “You switch it on and off, just like switching on the TV.” Saying he doesn’t mind being called “the man with the bionic bottom,” the Yorkshire resident added that the only drawback is having to have his improvised sphincter muscles replaced every five years.

WIN SOME, LOSE SOME - Mary Lait, a custodian at the Cook County, Ill., sheriff’s office, was awarded $14,022 for injuries she claims she suffered on two separate occasions while “reaching around to pick up a piece of toilet paper,” according to court documents.

After his release from prison, David M. Cohen, 43, a former police sergeant in Stoughton, Mass., asked the town to reimburse him $113,496 for expenses related to his case. The Brockton Enterprise said that Cohen claims the town owes him for 87 accrued vacation days, 125 unused sick days, 144 hours of comp time accrued for not using sick time, 152 hours of supervisor comp time, 481 hours for court appearances related to his criminal case, 280 hours of overtime to prepare for his case, at least 61 percent education incentive pay for 2007, and 61 percent for accrued stipends and benefits. Cohen’s conviction in 2007 was for attempted extortion. “We will reject the man’s request,” Town Manager Mark S. Stankiewwicz declared.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS - The Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission announced it’s considering sanctions against Chicago immigration attorney Samir Chowhan for telling a woman seeking employment at his firm that sex was a job requirement. The Chicago Tribune said the woman complained to the commission that after she responded to Chowan’s ad on Craigslist seeking an “energetic woman” for “general secretarial work, some paralegal work and additional duties for two lawyers,” Chowhan replied by e-mail that “in addition to the legal work, you would be required to have sexual interaction with me and my partner, sometimes together sometimes separate.” Chowhan added that previous women filling the position “have not been able to handle the sexual aspect of the job later. We have to be sure you’re comfortable with that aspect, because I don’t want you to do anything that you’re not comfortable with. So since that time, we’ve decided that as part of the interview process you’ll be required to perform for us sexually.” The e-mail concluded: “I am free to interview today.”

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Los Angeles authorities charged Jeffrey Graybill with posing as a fertility doctor after two men said they responded to his ad on Craigslist offering $4,000 a month for donations to his fertility clinic. The men complained that Graybill insisted on examining their genitals at his apartment complex before he would accept them as sperm donors. KPHO News reported the men were never paid, but when they called the clinic to ask about their money, employees told them Graybill didn’t work there. Investigators concluded that the ruse was a way for Graybill to molest young men and that there are as many as 24 victims in California and Arizona.

HOW THE WORLD WORKS - After last year’s chocolate sale failed to raise enough money, a parent advisory council at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro, N.C., came up with a plan to sell test scores. According to Raleigh’s News and Observer, students can buy 20 test points for $20 and add 10 extra points to any two tests of their choice. Although the extra points could change a “B” to an “A” or from a failing grade to a passing grade on the two tests, principal Susie Shepherd insisted that they wouldn’t amount to enough to change a student’s overall grades.

The 2002 Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act that put Camden, N.J., under state control set aside $175 million for dozens of city projects that officials promised would create jobs and lift Camden out of poverty. Instead, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, most of the bailout money, $99 million, went to universities, hospitals and government agencies and tourist attractions—including $25 million to expand the aquarium to include hippopotamuses and sharks. Noting the money turned out to have no effect on Camden’s median income, which remains the lowest of any medium-sized American city, the Inquirer observed, “Thanks to $25 million in recovery money, America’s poorest city now has hippos.”

MORE NAILS IN PRINT’S COFFIN - Nearly half of regular Internet users in the United States said they’re willing to read news online, including on mobile devices. The survey, commissioned

by Boston Consulting, found that the 48 percent who said they would pay for online news indicated the average amount they would pay is $3 a month. Although both figures were lower than those surveyed in other Western countries, Americans were much more likely than the others to pay for admission to sites that offered Internet access to multiple papers.

A meeting of magazine salesmen at a motel in Tacoma, Wash., ended when two men announced they wanted to quit their jobs, only to be beaten with baseball bats and golf clubs.

Police arrested the remaining six salesmen in an SUV just blocks away after discovering one was armed with brass knuckles and a gun. KOMO-TV reported the door-to-door subscription operation, called Fresh Start Opportunities, was a scam in which young men claiming to make a fresh start in life take donations ranging from $50 to $800 without delivering the magazines.

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he holiday season is set up for a judgmental fat man—or threatening parents—to pose the question of whether your actions throughout the year register as naughty or nice. We don’t like the options. Perhaps it’s because we’re not sure which side of the list we’d fall under, or because we were never very happy about being pigeonholed. But either way, we’ve found a stress-free way to avoid the issue entirely.

We have it on good authority from the jolly dude in the red suit that the best way to guarantee “nice” this holiday season is to support local businesses. The economy may be showing signs of life, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to steer our gift-tugging sleighs toward Reserve Street. It’s just as important this year to buy homegrown, handmade or otherwise locally created gifts, preferably from locally owned stores.

That’s why we’ve compiled a wide-ranging list of our favorite local suggestions for this holiday season. We surely couldn’t list every worthy artisan or proprietor, but we compiled an enticing list that should cover every budget and an array of tastes. We even included a few options for those of you who may, for better or worse, fall into the naughty category this year.

by the Independent staff

Artistic Montana map $32 Things get a little crazy during the holiday season, and sometimes it’s best to take a deep breath, take a load off and appreciate where you are. That would be Montana. Big Sky Country. The Last Best Place. Our old Montucky home.

Pretty cool place, right? And with a pretty cool history. That history is captured in the hand-drawn, old world-style maps made by brothers Chris and Greg Robitaille. Intended as a frame-able piece of art, these antique-y posters look like something Lewis and Clark would have commissioned upon their return—and they’d look perfectly distinctive on your father’s office wall.

Find it at: Miss Zula’s, 111 N. Higgins Avenue; Rockin Rudy’s, 237 Blaine Street; or the UM Bookstore, 5 Campus Drive.

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Montana Jerky Co. jerky $8–$10 Only by chance did we happen upon what has become, in the years since, the most important pit stop on the way to Glacier National Park: Montana Jerky Co., supplier of delicious and packable protein perfect for fueling summer treks. The Vandevanter family began processing meat in 1945 at its tiny facility in Columbia Falls just off Highway 206, and today Ron Vandevanter makes six varieties of jerky.

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“It’s amazing,” he says. “We get a lot of people stopping on the way to Glacier and on the way out because they like the product so much.”

We recommend the buffalo jerky, since the animals are Montanaraised. Fortunately, you don’t have to make the three-hour trip from Missoula to Columbia Falls to stock up on the perfect stocking stuffer.

Find it at: Worden’s Market, 451 N. Higgins Avenue; Mullan Station, 3420 Mullan Road; or directly from the Montana Jerky Company, 180 Trap Road, Columbia Falls, www.montanajerkyco.com.

The Western Classic rifle Starting at $3,295 Nothing spells locavore like bagging a bull elk just a few miles from home. Why not help the hunter in the family take hunting in Missoula’s backyard to the next level?

Cooper Firearms of Stevensville specializes in a wide array of rifles, from single-shot squirrel shooters to big-boy game guns. Each rifle is custom crafted by local experts. We suggest the Western Classic. A tasteful walnut stock and hand-struck barrel—plus options for gold inlay and engraving—make it as much a work of art as a means for putting meat on the table. With roughly 50 calibers to choose from, there’s a version of the Western Classic for every gaming opportunity in Montana.

Order it from: Ronan Sports and Western, 63298 Highway 93 South.

RoughStock Montana Whiskey $53

Glass dildos $40–$100

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Missoula is home to a smattering of adult shops, but as far as we know there’s only one locally owned shop where you can find body-friendly handblown glass dildos made by a local artisan.

Birds and Bees LLC, the sexual health collaborative that opened in September, orders these artistic accoutrements from a local glass blower, and offers a variety of shapes and sizes. While we can’t independently guarantee the purchasers, um, satisfaction, we can say they are at least aesthetically pleasing.

That helps on Christmas morning in case you need to explain to confused inlaws that it’s simply a glass sculpture for your sweetheart’s bedside table.

Westerners have a warm spot in their hearts for whiskey. (Or maybe it’s from whiskey.) So why is it that Montana boasts a couple dozen microbreweries but nary a distillery? Well, for a long time state laws discouraged small distillers, but that changed in 2005, and now Montana has what’s dubbed the “First Best Whiskey in the Last Best Place.”

RoughStock is handcrafted in Bozeman from Montana-grown and malted barley and mountain snowmelt. Husband and wife distillers Bryan and Kari Schultz, fourth generation Montanans, began bottling RoughStock earlier this year, and the libations of their labor are now in liquor stores around the state.

Find it at: Grizzly Liquor, 110 W. Spruce Street; or Krisco Liquor, 1300 S. Reserve Street.

Find them at: Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway.

Magbag bags $15–$65 Sure, you could drop a couple hundred bucks on some designer handbag made of supple European cowhide. But why do that when you could support a Missoula family making the funkiest and most practical bag around in their extra bedroom in student housing—and save enough money to fill it?

Magbags are named after primary crafter and designer Magda Martin, and have become one of the hippest made-in-Missoula accessories. Magda makes the Mini Bag, Mega Bag, Mommy Bag, Laptop Bag, Baby Wrap and Diaper Clutch all in the jazziest designs certain to please even your most fashion forward (or backward) lady friends, especially the expectant ones.

The Missoula Saturday Market, where Magda sets up shop, is closed for the season, but you can still get your hands on her creations before the holidays.

Find it at: Sotto Voce, 111 W. Main Street; online at www.magbag.net; or at the Missoula MADE Fair, Sunday, Dec. 13, 11 a.m.—6 p.m., Zootown Arts Community Center & Stensrud buildings, 235 & 314 N. First St. W.

Locally bound photo album Starting at $35 Family mementos often make the best presents, especially for that hard-to-buy-for parent. Unfortunately, they also receive the most wear and tear.

If the childhood photo album Mom treasures so much is looking worse for the years, take it up to Shaffner’s Bindery in Missoula. Jeff Shaffner will supply his expertise in crafting an attractive new cover for those old memories. Choose from a variety of leather products, from calfskin to goatskin. All the work is done on historic binding equipment, which Shaffner’s Bindery purchased from the University of Montana’s printing operation 45 years ago. The photos might be familiar, but it’ll give loved ones a whole new reason to look back on the past at Christmas.

Find it at: Shaffner’s Bindery, 3305 Pattee Canyon Road.

Emu pain relief balm $17.95–$54.95

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It’s hard work being Santa’s little helper during the holiday season.

We’re talking about huffing it from store to store, carrying umpteen shopping bags around town, and wrestling with putting all those impossibly intricate toys together on Christmas Eve. All that hard work makes for one tired body on Christmas morning—and little recovery time before hitting the slopes on your precious days off.

Enter Laid in Montana’s emu pain relief balm. This magical little rub, made from the hundreds of animals at the Montana Emu Ranch Co. in the Flathead, claims to cure all your aches and pains. The special formula—40 percent of which is emu oil—transports concentrated herbs deep into tis-

sues, eases pain in sore muscles and joints, and reduces inflammation and restores elasticity.

If pain is not your game, there are plenty of other local emu-related products. Turns out, Montana Emu Ranch Co. and the Bitterroot’s Wild Rose Emu Ranch use more than 95 percent of each bird for everything from moisturizing oils to delicious meat. What doesn’t get used? Just the beak and feet.

But our wish list focuses on the pain relief balm—and maybe, if you love us, a little back massage.

Find it at: Good Food Store, S. Third Street W.; Rockin Rudy’s, 237 Blaine Street; among other locations. Find Montana Emu Ranch Co. online at www.laidinmt.com, and Wild Rose Emu Ranch at www.wildroseemu.com.

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Rocky Mountain School of Photography prints Prices vary from “less than $50” to hundreds of dollars

Freeman Transport bicycles $985 and up Missoulians pedal around town picking up locally made bread, locally brewed beer and locally grown veggies—and we can now do it all on a full-sized, collapsable bicycle made by a Missoula-based company.

Freeman Transport, co-founded about two years ago by local graphic artist Ben Ferencz, who lives in St. Ignatius, and Nathaniel Freeman, of Minneapolis, Minn., features hand-built custom steel-framed bicycles, including track and commuter bikes and, soon, road and cross bikes. Perhaps most notably, the company makes bikes that can be easily disassembled and packed into signature waxed canvas and leather carrying cases.

“We wanted to travel with our bicycles, and we weren’t happy with our options,” Ferencz explains. “We wanted them to be full-size. We wanted them to have a certain functionality, a certain aesthetic, so we decided to do it ourselves.”

And they did.

Find it at: www.freemantransport.com

Thanks in part to the Rocky Mountain School of Photography (RMSP), Missoula is the host to, muse for and subject of dozens of renowned photographers. There’s a great chance to give these shooters’ work as gifts this season— and to hang it on your own walls—at RMSP’s upcoming Opening the Vault: Access to the RMSP Archives event.

The two-day sale features images by RMSP instructors, including the likes of Marcy James and Elizabeth Stone. It’s no University Center poster sale, but good deals on local, professional art are sure to be found. As James says, “I am just personally going through a phase of ‘celebrating’ our economic times, so I am into affordable art.” That’s something all of us can support.

Find it at: Rocky Mountain School of Photography Gallery, 216 N. Higgins Avenue, Dec. 12 and 13, 10 a.m.—5 p.m.

DIY T-shirts $5 per hour rentals, plus supplies, if necessary

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Missoula is home to some fantastic apparel companies—Statriot Designs (the Monfuckintana shirt people) and Zoo City Apparel (the ubiquitous 406 designs) come immediately to mind. But budding Tshirt creators also have a chance to thrive thanks to the Wrongside Printing Station inside the Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC).

Wrongside rents its printing station to the public for $5 per hour. If you’re planning on outfitting more than a couple of friends, you might want to have printing staff make a screen of whatever you want printed on your T-shirts. Screens run between $35 and $50.

Find it at: The ZACC is located at 235 N. First Street W. Zoo City Apparel is available at the ZACC, as well. Find Statriot shirts at Betty’s Devine, 521 S. Higgins Avenue, or online at www.etsy.com/shop/statriotdesigns.

The Microwave Baked Potato Bag $4–$9

Hunter Bay coffee $10.50–$12 per pound As far as drinks go, locals take their coffee and beer choices about as seriously as a winter storm warning. And for the caffeine fiends, a pound of Moose Drool Coffee from Lolo’s Hunter Bay Coffee Roasters will keep them buzzing through New Year’s Day. Developed with Big Sky Brewing, creator of the deliciously dark Moose Drool beer, the coffee Photo by Cathrine L. Walters is sweet with a hint of brown sugar, caramel and spice.

Bernice’s Blend, also roasted locally by Hunter Bay, offers another equally tasty option.

A combination of fair trade Sumatra Takengon coffee and Ugandan White Nile coffee, it’s roasted three times a week and delivered fresh to the Third Street bakery.

Find it at: Most local grocery stores, or at Hunter Bay’s Lolo roasting plant, 11300 U.S. Highway 93 S. Visit them online at www.hunterbay.com.

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If your Christmas budget is tight or you only want to make a shirt or two, make your own paper stencil. That’s free.

Wrongside also sells solid colored T-shirts for between $5 and $10, or you can bring your own. Whichever way you decide to make it, just be sure to flex your fashion instincts and give the gift of DIY garb.

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Consider Shirley Hillberg a master of the microwave. The maker of microwave baked potato bags— available in all sorts of patterns and sizes—swears that her handmade product helps produce “just right” baked potatoes. And corn on the cob! And fried potatoes! And heated taco shells! If you have a starving college student on your gift list, this would seem to be the perfect present.

Hillberg is a regular at local craft fairs and the People’s Market during the summer, and says she’s sold 6,000 bags without a single complaint. She buys her fabrics locally, except when she cleans out all the muslin cotton and must trek to Spokane for more. And Hillberg makes each and every bag by hand, and includes foolproof recipes with each sale.

“My factory is right here on Mullan Road, right here in my living room,” she says. “It’s all just me.”

Find it at: Call Shirley Hillberg directly at 406-2079493 or 406-542-7454.

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The Dempsey Cup $15 Using nothing more than dump-bound junk and a bike-powered sander and saw, Missoula’s own Jack Dempsey Boyd has solved every coffee drinkers quandary: How do you make the morning addiction more environmentally friendly?

Forget that silly, mismatched assortment of Looney Tunes mugs (which, lets face it, shatter at a rate of one a week) and get your caffeine-swilling loved one a Dempsey Cup. Boyd fashions go-mug handles from plywood scraps and attaches them to Mason-style glass jars with copper wire. The result might not be as flashy as Tweety Bird, but isn’t that cobbled-together look in vogue these days anyway?

Bring It On.

Find it at: www.dempseycup.com

Cedar canvas canoe from the Flathead $4,500 Summer’s never too far away, and with it comes those windless days when Seeley Lake sits as still as glass. Outdoor enthusiasts will agree there’s no better time for a relaxing paddle.

James Zielanski can put the family boater in the stern of a beautiful wood-and-canvas canoe. Heck, he’s been doing it 11 years. Built entirely at Zielanski’s shop in Bigfork, these traditionally keelless canoes feature polished cedar ribs and a sturdy canvas shell. Both seats are handcrafted cane. These babies will handle like a dream even on rough waters, but caution the recipient to watch for rocks on the Blackfoot. Putting a hole in a canoe this striking is considered murder in some circles.

Find it at: Montana Cabinet and Canoe, 125 Marken Lane, Bigfork.

Heather’s Heritage Hens egg shares Three-month shares ranging from $35 to $140 Fresh, local food isn’t the first thing that comes to mind for a winter holiday gift. But a winter share from Heather’s Heritage Hens gets you richly flavored, locally laid eggs smack dab in the dead of the season.

Most people use eggs, so it’s a practical item. And, though the price is higher than what you’d find at grocery stores, the fresh, local factor also makes it a luxury. A gift certificate allots for a three-month share and can be customized to fit the size of the family. For instance, the easy punch card allows the flexibility to get more eggs one week and less another.

Find it at: Call Heather McKee directly at 406-2141524, or e-mail heathersheritagehens@gmail.com

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Starlight Arts gnome dolls $20 Kids love gnomes. Why? Because kids have better imaginations than scarred old-timers like us.

Anna Rummel Tenenbaum’s Starlight gnomes feed those young imaginative minds that find endless wonderment in the wild colors and fantastical pointy hats of the little folklore creatures. The 12-inch female and male dolls are made entirely from wool—merino and mohair— sourced from Montana vendors in Hall and Arlee.

Tenenbaum also uses angora from her own rabbits. The rainbow of colors comes straight from local plant producers who grow indigo, purple basil and onions specifically for dying materials. And, since each is handmade, no two gnomes look quite the same.

Find it at: Walking Stick Toys, 829 S. Higgins Avenue.

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Customized wine bottle art and serving trays $15 and up Jessi Eaton, the creator of Jessi Rae Wine Designs, has made a cottage industry out of old wine bottles otherwise destined for the landfill. Eaton scavenges the bottles from local restaurants and bars, and then flattens them into serving trays and art displays embellished with wire beading. The result is practical and gorgeous.

Eaton also creates personalized labels and says she’s happy to etch words on sentimental bottles emptied during anniversaries, weddings and bat mitzvahs. Sounds like a good choice for your sentimental significant other.

Find them at: Rockin Rudy’s, 237 Blaine Street; Worden’s Market, 451 N. Higgins Avenue; or Ellie Blue Timeless Gifts, 328 E. Pine Street. Or call Jessi Eaton directly at 406-860-8858.

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Missoula-centric skateboard $140 Edge of the World offers a variety of decks for local skateboarders, but just one features a Missoula landscape created by a famous ex-Missoulian.

Comedian and local skateboarding supporter Chris Fairbanks designed this deck in 1999 featuring the likes of Tommy the Leprechaun and Red. A cool $140 covers the deck and getting it ready to roll, and while only one remains in stock, we understand that more can be made if the demand is there.

Find it at: Edge of the World, 618 S. Higgins Avenue.

Heart-healthy HighMont steaks $13.99 a pound Nothing gets the family meat-lover salivating like the sizzle of a juicy top sirloin on the grill. So join your neighborhood locavores and keep an eye on your cholesterol intake with steak from the shores of Flathead Lake.

Rancher Ed Jonas has worked for four years to successfully cross low-fat Highland cattle with the succulent Piedmontese breed. What did Jonas get? HighMont, a novelty strain of beef with less saturated fat than your Thanksgiving turkey.

Buying local and staying healthy just got tastier, but watch out. Odds are whoever gets these steaks at Christmas won’t want to share.

Where Men Can Be Men Walk ins welcome Appointments to fit your schedule Open Monday - Saturday

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Order it from: Blacktail Mountain Ranch, erj@blacktailmountainranch.com.

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“Tobacco” pipe $15–$100

Local cowboy music box set Roughly $60

Let’s face it: Every gift list includes at least one friend or family member who still eats Cheetos for breakfast, plays Xbox until dawn, can quote “Family Guy” like a priest can quote the Bible and sleeps past 2 p.m. on a regular basis. You may not understand the ways of this loved one, but let us make a small suggestion: He or she would be wicked thankful for a locally made glass pipe on Christmas morning—or, in this case, Christmas afternoon.

Lucky for you, Missoula has a plethora of options for such gifts. We recommend the two colorfully stuffed cases at Piece of Mind—including some choice bubblers and chillums—and then heading a few doors down to Atmosphere, where you’ll find certain selections stickered with the Made in Montana logo. Our favorite: The maroon pipe with what looks like the Griz logo.

Granted, you could probably create an infinite number of combination box sets showcasing local bands. The newly arrived college kid seeking a ray of hope that he hasn’t left all the good music behind in Portland or Seattle would have no problem putting together a collection of local anti-folk, sci-fi rock, retro grunge, hip-hop, garage pop, stoner, metal and/or electronic that wouldn’t suck.

But let’s just say the new kid on the block needs a little countrified flavor to go with his Montucky lifestyle. We suggest this handpicked combo: Russ Nasset’s old-style covers on Human Tongue, Bob Wire’s honky tonk on Buffaload, Tom Catmull and the Clerics’ alt-country on Glamour Puss, Stomping Ground’s old-west pop on Midnight on the Highway, Richie and the Rocketdogs’ Americana pop on Manic Heart, and Bird’s Mile Home’s melodic cowpunk on Family Portrait. Now there’s a country six-pack to quench a thirst.

Find them at: Local head shops, including Atmosphere, 115 W. Main Street; Piece of Mind, 123 W. Main Street; Urban Kings, 103 E. Main Street; and Raja’s, 1220 W. Broadway.

GoFetch! gift basket $20–$30

Find these discs at: Ear Candy Music, 624 S. Higgins, and Rockin Rudy’s, 237 Blaine Street.

Don’t you love holiday baked goods? Us, too. But your best friend with the wagging tail sports a snack tooth just like everyone else.

Scott Timothy, owner of local dog shop Go Fetch!, makes no bones about a dog’s holiday needs. He says people think of other people first during Black Friday and only later remember their four-legged buddies. Enter his gift basket presented in a collapsible dog bowl and featuring treats from the Go Fetch! bakery, like carob, beef mixed with carrot and wheat-free peanut butter cookies. You can also add doggie muffins and cheesy garlic bones. And, don’t worry, Timothy’s holiday cookie cutters provide seasonal shapes your dog will surely love—or at least be happy to gulp down. For an extra bonus, we suggest including a toy or rawhide chew, too.

Find it at: Go Fetch! locations at 627 Woody Street, 517 S. Higgins Avenue and 3275 N. Reserve Street.

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the $$–$$$...$15 and over Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the Great Room; visit with the chefs and dine in the Kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Hours: M-Th 11am10pm; Fr-Sa 11am-11pm; Sun 10am-10pm; Sun brunch 10am-2pm; Tavern til Midnight Su-Th, 2am Fr-Sa. $$-$$$ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an extensive domestic and Italian wine list makes Ciao Mambo a hit for any occasion. Dinner only and take out service available. Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house.

Reservations recommended for the warm & inviting dining

areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. • 549-2790 Share a meal on our park side patio or within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues.-Sat. 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$

$–$$...$5–$15 Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzone, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a "biga" (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch & dinner.

Beer & Wine. Mon-Sat. $-$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 Dine-In, Drive-Thru, Delivery... Truly a Missoula find. Popular with the locals. Voted Missoula's best pizza. Everything from hand-tossed, thin-crust, stone deck pizza to wild salmon burritos, free-range chicken, rice bowls, ribs, pasta, salads, soups, sandwiches & "Pizza by the Slice."

And now offering gluten-free dough. Local brews on tap and wine by the glass. Open every day for lunch & dinner. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave 721-6033 Missoula “Original” Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, baked goods and an espresso bar til close. Mon thru Thurs 7am - 8pm Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm. www.thinkfft.com $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks • 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous. Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be!

Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Hunter Bay Coffee hunterbay.com • 800-805-2263 Missoula’s only local roaster since 1991!

We use award-winning coffee recipes and traditional European small-batch roasting techniques to create our premium coffees. Hunter Bay’s gourmet coffees and unique coffee gifts are available locally and on the web. For freshly roasted coffee delivered to your door, join Hunter Bay’s Coffee of the Month Club! www.hunterbay.com/products/coffee-club.

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and

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The fatty feast Ritual and celebration at solstice time has been the norm around the world long before the commercial “Holiday Season” was recognized. Many cultures, including Pagan, Norse, German, American Indians and Japanese, have solstice-related symbols and myths in common with our own, such as the decorating of an evergreen tree, the use of lights to compensate for the absence of sun or the telling of stories about rebirth when the world is dead.

Another common tradition at the beginning of winter is the act of getting together for a feast. It’s a time when the harvest is in and the hunt is done.

Everybody is snuggled into cozy corners and in need of social contact. And of course, we need to inflate some of our empty fat cells in order to help keep the sharp teeth of winter at bay.

Metabolically speaking, little has changed since the ancient times.

During warmer seasons, we don’t need as much antifreeze in our pipes, and can survive by grazing on leafy greens. But as the days cool, salad alone just won’t cut it—unless it includes cheese, bacon bits, ranch dressing, olives and is served with warm soup and buttered bread. This time of year our eating habits respond to the need for extra insulation, which comes down to fat.

An arctic explorer I once heard on the radio mentioned that when you’re off exploring and freezing your ass off, there is nothing you’d rather eat than a stick of butter rolled in sugar. Every calorie counts when your body is a delicate fire that needs to be fed and protected from the forces that would otherwise extinguish it. While that diet might not appeal to you on the couch, the colder you are and the harder you’re working, the more you need those calories. Plus, rich food tastes better.

Many schools of cooking follow the rule of thumb that “fat is flavor.” I agree with the impor-

Ask Ari:

meuniere, and french fries with ketchup. In each case, the fat and acid are combined with the thing that’s eaten: salad, sole, potatoes. This acid-fat-thing flavor equation works throughout the year, of course, but it’s especially poignant now, when rich foods are tastier than ever.

In fact, fat and acid together is a metaphor for the holidays as a whole. The acid component is analogous to the cold and dark conditions this time of year, and the need to create a cushion. The holidays are that cushion, softening the blow of winter while keeping us moving forward into the new calendar year. The holidays are like fat, softening winter’s

bite. The holidays might seem too decadent if it weren’t for the severity of the season.

While the creative tension between acid and fat can create great flavor, the two substances don’t easily mix. When forced to commingle, they move apart as quickly as possible, causing many a sauce or dressing to separate.

When acid and a fat are coaxed to mix into a stable form that doesn’t separate, it’s called an emulsion. Many of the world’s best sauces are emulsions, like mayonnaise, hollandaise, béarnaise, ranch dressing-aise, and even some sauces that aren’t white, like that salmoriglio, which can be made as follows.

While your steak (or other “thing”) is cooking—ideally on live coals—quickly whisk or beat a halfcup of olive oil in a small bowl. Add a half-cup of hot water, poured slowly into the oil in a thin stream, while constantly beating the oil. Continue beating as you add the juice of 2 lemons, in a thin stream. Finally, stir in a clove of minced garlic, a small bunch of minced parsley, a few sprigs of minced oregano and a teaspoon of dried oregano. Adjust seasoning with salt, and serve the salmoriglio on your thing.

To complete the dish, sprinkle some pomegranate seeds on the salmoriglio-drenched thing.

The occasional seed will explode in your mouth, a tart bite of sweet acid cutting the richness like a sip of wine.

Warm camaraderie further thickens the sauce as we gather, swap stories, work together in the kitchen and reflect upon the spread before us.

Don’t let the dying of the light and the empty, cold, dark days threaten to swallow us whole. It’s time to battle back, rub our hands together, light candles, gather indoors, extend our glasses and dive into our fatty feast.

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Raw eggs, like many other foods, can carry salmonella bacteria. Most times your body deals with it, but if your immune system is compromised you should eat your eggs well cooked. This is why sunny-side-up eggs aren’t served in nursing homes.

I don’t believe you sacrifice flavor with eggnog by cooking it. Cooking brings out a thick fullness

from the eggs, and the best eggnogs I’ve enjoyed were cooked.

I don’t have a pet eggnog recipe to give you, but you can find plenty of good recipes at the appropriately named website www.eggnogrecipe.net, including chocolate eggnog, a low-fat eggnog that sounds somewhat revolting, and a coconut eggnog concoction that I’ve paraphrased below.

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Heat, but do not boil, slowly over a medium heat, stirring continuously.

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tance of fat in creating rich, satisfying flavor, but I don’t agree it’s as simple as “add butter and serve.”

Consider a nice deer steak drenched in salmoriglio, an oily, lemony, oregano garlic sauce.

In this sauce the acidic lemon mixes with the fatty olive oil, creating a context for the oregano to permeate the mouthful with its herby volatility while drenching the protein with a balance of fat and acid.

The fat coats the taste buds, and the acid cuts through the fat to stimulate them.

The fat/acid phenomenon is enjoyed in oil and vinegar dressing for salads, lemon butter in sole

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Pour the combined mixture back into your large saucepan (and rinse the large bowl because you’ll need it again). Cook over a low heat, but do not boil, stirring continuously.

When the eggnog thickens enough to coat a spoon, pour the eggnog through a strainer back into the bowl. Let it cool to room temperature.

Stir in 8 tablespoons dark rum. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, but preferably overnight.

Just prior to serving, combine ground nutmeg and cinnamon in a small dish, and sprinkle the mixture on top of each served glassful.

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Help keep others in Missoula from going hungry by donating either non-perishable food items or money to the Missoula Food Bank, 219 S. Third St. W., during its annual holiday drive, which lasts through Dec. 23. Drop off times are: Mon.–Tue. from 8 AM–7 PM and Wed.–Fri. from 8 AM–3 PM. Call Nick Roberts at 549-0543. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010.

Kids and parents experiment with rhythm and more during Rhythm Tykes, a class for kids 18 months–4 years old this and every Thu. at 10 AM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. $40 five classes/$10 class. Call 396-3352.

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If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Art projects, educational games and storytime activities aim to stimulate your 3- to 7-year-old’s mind into Stephen Hawking-esque capabilities during Ready Set Read at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY.

Guess who lost the beard challenge? Trampled by Turtles plays bluegrass at the Top Hat Thu., Dec. 10, at 10 PM. Cover TBA. of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY or visit www.learnplayimagine.org.

Children learn basic art skills and engage their senses in different mediums and techniques during an afterschool kids’ art class, which meets from 3–5:30 PM at Shadow Mountain Art Studio, 2825 Stockyard Road A-10, behind Johnny Carino’s. $20 per class with all materials included.

E-mail Emily at missoulasartgym@yahoo.com.

Shake it ‘til you break it when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., offers Booty Ballet every Thu. at noon. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 3- to 6-year-old might need some work, so bring them to another installment of Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 4 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Students of Potomac School sing and bellow at noon, while the Valley Christian School Choir keeps the ensemble together at 2 PM, all at Clock Court in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Music by Missoula’s Electric Strings and the Flute Ensemble follows, starting at 5 PM. Call 721-5140.

Ceramics and sculpture meet for an aesthetic feast of sorts during the 23rd Annual UM Art Annex Holiday Juried Show and Sale, which runs from 4–7 PM in the art annex, adjacent to the Grizzly Pool next to the Adams Center. Free to spectate. Features work by ceramist Julia Galloway and others. Call Beth Lo at 243-6476.

What’s good for your stomach is splendid for art during Afterschool Adventures: Playdate with an Artist, which features the program “Gingerbread House” at the Children’s Museum

nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu.

from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Wiggle those hips and strike poses of elegant expression when former UM dance prof Amy Ragsdale leads a Beginning to Intermediate Modern Dance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., every Thu. at 5 PM. Cost TBA. Call 541-7240.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, nortec—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free.

Call 396-3352.

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 11, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Renew and connect with the natural world, for free, during a Vinyasa Yoga class that meets this and every Thu. from 5:30–6:30 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. Free, until 2010. Visit terangaarts.googlepages.com.

Get those endorphins pumpin’ late in the day when you join professional runner Meg Lerch for tempo runs and drills during Thursday Tempo Runs, every Thu. at 5:30 PM starting with a stretch at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA/Free to Run Wild Missoula Members. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

You have to sign up, or already be a member, but if you’re part of the Missoula Art Museum’s Contemporary Collectors Circle, don’t miss its annual acquisition party at 5:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Cost TBA. Party includes participation in acquisition of artwork for the MAM collection, as well as a discussion on the development of the collection and more. Call Ted Hughes at 728-0447 ext. 222 to join the CCC, or to RSVP for the event.

Connect your mind and soul to whatever deity you deem divine during a taize chanting circle with Rev. Jennifer Hackenbruch and Erin Barnes the second and fourth Thu. of the month at 6 PM at 2237 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 370-9631.

After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171.

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free.

Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

Local artist Marlo Crocifisso guides your 13to18-year-old towards a fervor for silhouettes and stenciling during Teen Open Studio Night, where Crocifisso teaches professional stenciling techniques to your kid from 6–8 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call Linden at 728-0447 ext. 230, or visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Putting Marilyn Manson’s version of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” on repeat probably isn’t going to help your kid sleep. You should be able to find some better tips during “Ages 0–5 Survival Guide: Sweet Dreams,” a class on healthy sleeping patterns and strategies which runs from 6–7:30 PM at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St. $12 couple/$10 museum members. RSVP by calling 721-7690.

Perhaps you’ll find a new calling during the Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club, which meets at 6 PM at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, and features discussion of Thomas Moore’s book A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born To Do. Free. Call 363-1670.

Andrea Harsell might just play a benevolent game of musical bait and switch when she performs what could be bluegrass, folk, country or rock at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

They’ve tackled the ins and outs of html in order to make spiffy webpages for two nonprofit orgs. Now you can see the fruits of labor from students with UM’s management information systems program during an inaugural website competition which starts at 6 PM, in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-4569.

Exercise those creative fingers in order to stencil, stamp, make recycled scrap designs and more during “Holiday Card Making: Recycled!”, a workshop that runs from 6–8 PM at Noteworthy Paper & Press, 101 S. Higgins Ave. $25. Call 541-6683.

If you’ve got a bit of Irish or Scottish in ye, help others keep the heritage of your ancestry alive during a meeting of the 2010 Bitterroot Scottish Irish Festival committee, which meets at 6:30 PM at the Hidden Legend Winery, 1345 Hwy. 93 N. #5, just 5.5 miles south of Victor. Free. Call Ken at 363-6323 or Eric at 381-3630.

Get exposed to “Understanding Exposure,” in the realm of photography, when the Rocky Mountain Photography Club presents a lecture on the topic by Neil Chaput de Saintonge at 6:30 PM, at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven doublespaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

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You just might do the push, whip or the jitterbuglindy when Cathy Clark slings beginning swing dance lessons every Thu. at 7 PM, and then moves to beyond basics swing lessons at 7:30 PM, at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., with open dancing from 8–10 PM. $5 person for dance lessons. E-mail cathyc@missoulaboneandjoint.com.

You can waltz, cha cha, swing, salsa, merengue and even bust a cupid shuffle during a variety line dance class which meets this and every Thu. until Dec. 17 from 7–8 PM at the Dance Studio, 2105 Bow St. $24 person. Call 529-3204.

VS MSU-Northern Lights Wed., Dec. 16th @ 7:00pm Spirit Squad, the UM Pep Band, and Monte Mismo Gymnastics Halftime Performance

Consumption, controversy and a look at the consequences of environmental de-regulation under Dubya comprise what should be an interesting night when The Story of Stuff screens at 7 PM, followed by A Snowmobile for George, all at the University Center Theater. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

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Lingerie will be modeled, hair and makeup styles will be shown off, and wounded veterans will be honored during the First Annual Midnight Dreams Calendar Girl Competition, which starts at 7 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. Free to attend. Donation’s will be collected by models at the event to support the Wounded Warrior Project. Call 830-3277.

The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

(See Theater in this issue.)

Indulge in the sweeping motions of modern dance from three different visual perspectives when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance Up Close, a series of nine original dance pieces with performances starting at 7:30 PM, in the Masquer Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under.

Call 243-4481 or visit umtheatredance.org.

Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet absorb themselves with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10.

Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets.

(See Theater in this issue.)

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Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

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Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3.

Get your fix with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

Bassackwards Karaoke turns your world underside-up every Thu. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on Airway Boulevard. Free. Call 531-8327.

Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free.

Ride roughshod with a pick between your teeth in the company of others when Duluth, Minn.’s Trampled by Turtles pulls out some bluegrass tricks at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Cross your karaoke sword with others under the influence of that music box you sing along to during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

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Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes.

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Bowling and karaoke go together like Iraq and stability during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING.

Let the noise rock fill of your ears like a melting banana when Tokyo’s Melt-Banana plays the Palace at 9 PM. $8. Opening support from The Lion. The Tamer and Deny the Dinosaur?.

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just because of Dimebag’s talent or the fact that he was, by all accounts, a kind and generous man, but because musicians realized the same thing could happen to anybody taking the stage, anywhere.

This Saturday the Palace hosts Dimestock 2009, Missoula’s third annual tribute to Dimebag Darrell. This year’s lineup sees metal bands Universal Choke Sign, pictured above, and Blessiddoom join forces with Slit Throat and River Runs Red. They’ll take the stage to play tribute to the late guitarist and his band by covering Dimebag songs throughout the show.

You can pay tribute too by joining in on the pink beard contest (a Dimebag trademark) and win prizes. It’s all further proof that, while tragedy can wipe out some of music history’s best talents, some influences never die.

—Chris La Tray

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Ceramics and sculpture meet for an aesthetic feast of sorts during the 23rd Annual UM Art Annex Holiday Juried Show and Sale, which runs from 9 AM–7 PM in the art annex, adjacent to the Grizzly Pool next to the Adams Center. Free to spectate. Features work by ceramist Julia Galloway and others.

Call Beth Lo at 243-6476.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Toddlers always learn a thing or two from books like Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut at Toddler Story Time, which includes age appropriate stories (of course), from 10:30–11:15 AM in the downstairs meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton.

Free. Call 363-1670.

Invigorate that spine of yours during a Classical Pilates Mat Class taught by Alison Laundrie every Fri. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 11 AM. $12. RSVP 541-2673.

Pizza and parenting tips mesh when Families First presents Pizza for Parents: Positive Discipline at the family resource center of Lewis and Clark Elementary School, 2901 Park St., at 11:30 AM. Free, with childcare included. Call 721-7690 to register.

Karen Perry leads you through the oneness of it all, while offering modifications, adjustments and encouragement as needed during Hatha Yoga for All, which meets this and every Fri. from noon–1 PM until Dec. 18 at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

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vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

If you’d like to comment on the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Park’s recommendation on how to respond to a landowner-initiated petition to close waterfowl hunting on a portion of the Mitchell Slough in the Bitterroot, get your comments in by today to Missoula’s office of FWP. Mail them addressed to: “Mitchell Slough Waterfowl Hunting” FWP, 3201 Spurgin Road, Missoula, MT, 59804. Call 542-5500 or visit fwp.mt.gov/r2/default.html.

Add another argument for evolution into your mental toolbox when evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant lead the presentation “Evolution in Darwin’s Finches,” at 12:10 PM in Room 110 of UM’s Interdisciplinary Sciences Building. Free. Call 243-5292.

Only musical mischief will occur when The Shenanigans play Clock Court in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St., at 2 PM. Free, with music by the Jazz Trio from the Christian Life Center following at 5, then a set

by Tuba Christmas at 7 PM. Call 721-5140.

Kids in first through fifth grade stir their artistic passions after school during the ZACC’s Young Artist Afterschool Program where instructor Hanna Hannan leads art projects, field trips, tours and more from 3–5:30 PM every weekday until Dec. 23 at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per day, with busing available. Visit www.zootownarts.com or call 549-7555.

If you know your way around a tuba or euphonium, don’t blow this opportunity: sign up to be part of Tuba Christmas, the annual holiday music performance at Southgate Mall which starts with registration at 3:30 PM and rehearsal at 4, all in the

band room in Sentinel High School, 901 South Ave. W. Performance at the mall follows at 7 PM. $5 registration fee, with an additional $12 if you want a copy of the music. Call Gary Gillett at 728-2403 Ext. 7041.

nightlife Lyric songs ought to be sung in a challenging, operatic fashion during UM’s Concerto Aria Competition, which runs from 5–11 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

Shower yourself with more than 20 films created by UM students and faculty from the Media Arts Department during the “Winter Film Showcase,” which runs from 5–9 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Free, but donations accepted. E-mail Hasalyn at hasalynharris@gmail.com.

Get your buzz on just after work with a varied selection of vino when The Loft, 119 W. Main St., presents a weekly wine tasting every Fri. at 5:15 PM. $10.

Zig zag your sockets of visual perception across contemporary drawings that explore figure and space when UM MFA candidate Rebecca Weed presents a Second Friday reception for her exhibit Forever and a Day: Works on Paper from 5:30–8:30 PM at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W. Free. Call 549-7555.

Sample a taste of what’s in store for this year’s MADE fair during a preview show which starts at 5:30 PM at REcreate Designs Studio and Showroom, 235 N. First St. W. Ste. D, on the second floor of the ZACC building. Free. Features work from Jen E. Designs, Piper & Paisley and more. Visit missoulamadefair.com.

If you’re itching to see strong action during climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, meet up with others during the 350 March and Vigil, which meets at 6 PM at the XXXX’s on the north end of Higgins Avenue.

Free. The march will take you past Sen. Tester’s office to Caras Park for the lighted vigil. Bring lights, candles and signs. E-mail Dave at dascmo@yahoo.com.

Bust out a jig and get jiggy to traditional Irish music when Celtic Connections, 114 E. Main St., hosts its grand opening celebration from 6–9 PM. Free. Call 721-6725.

It may be -2 degrees outside, but that doesn’t mean you can’t act like its summer inside. If you’re a kid in grades 7–12, consider heading to the Friday Night Hang Out Summer in December, which runs from 7–11 PM at City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview Ave. $3. Call Barry Peterson at 532-1555 or visit citylifemt.com.

DJs get the floor sizzling while garage rockers The Hermans play their final show, ever, during the Hellgate Rollergirls Black-N-Blue Ball, a benefit for the local nonprofit roller derby league which starts at 7 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $5.

The Hermans start playing at 9, while a bachelor and bachelorette auction follows at 10 PM. E-mail hellgaterollergirlsanneke@gmail.com.

A security guard at a supermarket enjoys watching a cleaning woman through his surveillance camera, but can he give up the obsession? Find out during a screening of the foreign film Gigante, at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Enter through the lower level doors of the library. Call 721-BOOK. Measures will be hit with rhythmic expertise while metaphors leap off the page when poets Brian Blanchfield and Mary Jane Nealon read from their work at 7 PM at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 549-9010.

Bring a pillow, relaxed vibes and slip into the season with sounds of didgeridoos, ethinic flutes, the bassoon and more when Michael Marsolek and Lawrence Duncan perform an intimate, candlelit concert as A Musical Dreamtime Journey at 7 PM at Bigfork’s Community United Methodist Church, 750 Electric Ave. $15/$12 advance at Art Fusion, all Montana Coffee Traders locations and drumbrothers.com.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 2434581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org. (See Theater in this issue.)

Advance tickets available from chorus members. Visit missoulachorus.org.

Soul, rock and blues as smooth as melted butter on a stack of pancakes creeps into your soul when Kevin Van Dort plays The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5, with barbeque and wine available for purchase. Call 830-3296 or visit thecellars.net.

A farm girl from Kansas explores a land “beyond the rainbow” with help from a tin man, cowardly lion and others during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $18/$16 seniors/$12 students. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Tw o m i n o r c h a r a c t e r s f r o m Shakespeare’s Hamlet absorb themselves with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15. Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets. (See Theater in this issue.)

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $ 2 0 . C a l l 72 8 - P L AY o r v i s i t mctinc.org.

It’s time to “get hyphy” in the company of your fellow rap fiends when the Bay Area’s hyphy king E-40 plays the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $25. Tickets at all GrizTix outlets or www.griztix.com. Opening support from locals Frodie, Overtime, Pallas Athena, Ambedext and others.

Your ear canal serves as an aural highway for what could be rock, blues or country when The Roadhouse Band plays the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

Grab the DNA swab test and see if you’ve got a bro in Brother Music when they blues up the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sexy at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you

by Karaoke by Figmo, every Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free.

Be thankful that the freedom to speak includes the freedom to sing when you sidle up to the mic at karaoke night at the VFW, kicking off at 9 PM. Free.

If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazad-dum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free.

It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hiphop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-5678.

Feel free to shake it like a salt shaker when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327.

December’s chill means it’s time for a rawk injection courtesy of Missoula’s all-female duo Vera, who play a CD release party at the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Butter and Secret Powers open. (See Scope in this issue.)

Open your third eye in order to bug out to psytrance, ravestep, breaks and more during Xeno-soniC, a dance party featuring DJs Hase, ir8prim8 and Tobin at 9 PM at the Palace. $5.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158.

Indulge in the sweeping motions of modern dance from three different visual perspectives when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance Up Close, a series of nine original dance pieces with performances starting at 7:30 PM, in the Masquer Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4481 or visit umtheatredance.org.

Ring in the season with resonating songs during the Missoula Community Chorus Holiday Concert, which features works by Handel, Hadyn and more at 7:30 PM at Saint Anthony Parish, 217 Tremont St. $25 family of four/$8 person/$20 family advance/$8 per person advance.

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It’s all about rock, rocking out, and more rock when Missoula’s Zoo City plays Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2.

Call 830-3277.

Banditos, lawyers and corn huskers all find something to two-step about when The Whiskey Rebellion heats up the Union Club with Americana and country at 9:30 PM. Free.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

Blues, R & B and rock sticks to your skin like a lecherous leech when the Mike Bader Blues Band plays the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Get those endorphins pumpin’ early when you join professional runner Meg Lerch for mid to long group runs during Saturday Group Runs, every Sat. at 8 AM starting with a stretch at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA/Free to Run Wild Missoula Members. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

They probably won’t be playing Blackalicious’ first album on repeat, but you can still get down with some lively movement of the same name when Jody Mosher and Cathy Jenni lead a Nia class every Sat. at 9 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10. Call 541-7240.

If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

Ceramics and sculpture meet for an aesthetic feast of sorts during the 23rd Annual UM Art Annex Holiday Juried Show and Sale, which runs from 9 AM–6 PM in the art annex, adjacent to the Grizzly Pool next to the Adams Center. Free to spectate. Features work by ceramist Julia Galloway and others.

Call Beth Lo at 243-6476.

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If you’d like to build your own “magickal” doll, which will be created from old bottles and empowered with symbols of hope, love, protection and more, join others at a TBA time and place today for a Spirit Doll Workshop. Free, but must RSVP for a schedule and directions. Visit missoulaareaevents.ning.com/group/spi ritdoll to sign up or e-mail dianne.getbetternow@gmail.com.

Any and all hog riders that want to help kids with the Child Development Center of Missoula should consider meeting up with members of the Christian Motorcyclists Association for the Missoula Bitterroot Area Motorcycle Toy Run. They plan to meet at the K-Mart parking lot, 3626 Brooks St., between 9:30–10 AM. From there they’ll ride into downtown and end up at the Christian Missionary Alliance Church to distrib-

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ute toys. Free to participate. Call 4930204 or 542-0143.

Get musical while finding your flow when Brian Baty leads a live music vinyasa yoga class, which features music by Nathan Zavalney, this and every Sat. from 9:30–10:45 AM at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $10 drop-in/$8 students drop-in, with various prices for punch-card holders. Call 581-4093 or visit yogainmissoula.com.

Learn to mix and match your bellydance styles during Beginners World Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Sat. at 10 AM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for as many classes as you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Wendy at 541-0667 or e-mail thebellytent@hotmail.com.

The sounds of a “choral confection of exceptional quality” sweep through the halls, while kids try their hands at ornament making and more at the Missoula Art Museum’s Holiday Weekend Fun activity, which runs from 10 AM–3 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free, includes performances by Dolce Canto at 1 and 1:30 PM, as well as a “creativity station” for kids to make ornaments. Call 7280447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Sample baklava, spanakopita and other Greek delights during a Christmas bake fair at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, 301 S. Sixth St. W., from 10 AM–4 PM. Free to attend. To reserve pickup orders for baklava or spanakopita, call Kristina at 721-9019 or Renie at 543-7307.

Snap shots like a pro with help from a pro during a Barbara Michelman photography workshop, which runs from 10 AM–noon at the Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton. Free, but space is limited.

Register by calling 363-3338 or email rcmuseum@qwestoffice.net.

Enhance your walls and impress your friends with work from past instructors, assistants and staff from the Rocky Mountain School of Photography during “Opening the Vault: Access to the RMSP Archives,” a sale of work from the school which runs from 10 AM–5 PM at the RMSP Gallery, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Call 5430171 or visit rmsp.com.

The early struggles of Muslims just after the death of Muhammad—particularly his wife A’isha and cousin Ali—gets explored via historical fiction when Sherry Jones signs copies of her book The Sword of Medina at 10:30 AM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Call 721-2881.

Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “Simple Writing–Creative Phrases” with Lori Mitchell. Free, but donations appreciated and accepted.

Register by calling 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers

engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kick it to the core for Core-Kicking Pilates Class with Alison Laundrie every Sat. at 646 Sixth St. W., at 11 AM. $10, includes childcare. RSVP 214-7247.

Snowflakes get the artistic treatment during the Missoula Art Museum’s Saturday Family Art Workshop: Kirigami Paper Snow Flakes, where instructor Loryn Zerr leads you and your child through the art of paper cutting from 11 AM–12:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5 per person. Space is limited, so RSVP by calling 728-0447.

Take a historic stroll through the digs of a deceased copper magnate during a Daly Mansion Holiday Tour from 11 AM–4 PM at the mansion, 251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton. $8/$7 seniors/$5 children/free kids under age 6. Call 363-6004 ext. 3.

Art projects, educational games and story time activities aim to stimulate your 3- to 7-year-old’s mind into Beethoven-esque capabilities during Ready Set Read at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front.

St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. Help your kid ages 9–12 avoid a case of frost bite by keeping them indoors and taking them to the Christmas craft workshop “Frosty the Doorstep,” which runs from noon–2 PM at Stevensville’s North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St. $2.

Younger children must be accompanied by an adult. Call 777-5061.

Turducken is not on the menu but a plethora of veggie oriented dishes are during the Western Montana Vegetarian Society’s Holidaythemed potluck, which starts at noon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 102 McLeod Ave. Free to attend, but a $2 minimum per person holiday donation accepted, which will be used for a veterinarian fund for farm animals. Visit newdawnmt.com.

Make good use of that digital camera sitting around your pad with some tips from the experts at Vann’s during the workshop “Intro to Digital Photography,” which starts at 1 PM at Vann’s, 3623 Brooks St. Free. Call 541-6000.

Stop wasting plastic bags and learn how to conserve with a Missoula Urban Demonstration Project workshop titled “Sew Your Own Grocery Bag,” which starts at 1 PM at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. $20/$10 members. Space is limited and registration required. Call 549-6790 or visit mudproject.ning.com.

The woolen warriors of Missoula’s Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle bring the world to drink every Sat. at 2 PM in Liquid Planet’s conference room.

Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of

Hamlet at 2 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 2434581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org. (See Theater in this issue.)

Indulge in the sweeping motions of modern dance from three different visual perspectives when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance Up Close, a series of nine original dance pieces with performances starting at 2 PM, in the Masquer Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4481 or visit umtheatredance.org.

A farm girl from Kansas explores a land “beyond the rainbow” with help from a tin man, cowardly lion and others during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz, with a performance at 2 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $18/$16 seniors/$12 students. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 2 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $16. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Teens entering grades 7–12 get to dissect and examine beauty and conformity while discussing Uglies

by Scott Westerfeld at “Those Literary Kids,” a teen book club that meets at 3 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife Escape from the vault of your mind and into the realm of hops and live music when Cellar Door plays the Blacksmith Brewing Company in Stevensville, 114 Main St., at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680 or visit blacksmithbrewing.com.

Fathers and daughters can learn ballroom dance, enjoy a cakewalk, buy

carnations and more during the Downtown Dance Collective’s Father-Daughter Dance, which runs from 6–9 PM at the collective, 121 W. Main St. $5 per couple/free admission if you bring a cake to donate to the cakewalk. All proceeds benefit the DDC’s scholarship program. RSVP by calling 541-7240 or visit ddcmontana.com.

Help special-needs kids while also enjoying food, music and more during the Bitterroot Therapeutic Riding Winter Picnic, which starts at 6 PM at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds First Interstate Center, 100 Old Corvallis Road in Hamilton. $25/$10 for music, dancing and no host bar/free children 10 and under.

All proceeds go to help the organization’s special needs riders. Call 9612999 or visit bitterrootriding.org.

You’ll just have to find out for yourself which kind of guys, or gals, play in D’s Guise, who play Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

The night of the first Christmas gets a live reenactment during Meadow View Church’s Living Nativity, which includes live animals and runs from 6–9 PM at the church, 3821 Stephens Ave. Free. Includes donkey rides, baked goods, hot chocolate and coffee. Call 549-3350.

Piano duets, a men’s quartet and the Columbia Falls United Methodist Church Choir gather to create harmonies and raise money for kids during The Spirit of Christmas Concert, which starts at 6:30 PM in the Performance Hall of Kalispell’s Glacier High School, 375 Wolfpack Way. $12, plus a non-perishable food item donation for area food banks.

All profits benefit the Flathead Court Appointed Special Advocates for Kids. Call David Merkel at 253-0686.

Grab a glimpse of the tightly controlled American agricultural/industrial food system during a screening of Food Inc., at 7 PM at Hamilton’s First Christian Church, 328 Fairgrounds Road. Free, with discussion to follow. Call Jill at 642-3601 or visit sustainablelivingsystems.org.

Warm up from the wintery frost with some steaming jazz vocals and licks courtesy of the Jeni Fleming Group, which plays this month’s installment of Daly Jazz, a monthly jazz concert at 240 Daly Ave., at 7 PM. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 2434581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org. (See Theater in this issue.)

Indulge in the sweeping motions of modern dance from three different visual perspectives when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance Up Close, a series of nine original dance pieces with performances starting at 7:30 PM, in the Masquer Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4481 or visit umtheatredance.org.

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A farm girl from Kansas explores a land “beyond the rainbow” with help from a tin man, cowardly lion and others during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $18/$16 seniors/$12 students. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Tw o m i n o r c h a r a c t e r s f r o m Shakespeare’s Hamlet absorb themselves with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15. Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets. (See Theater in this issue.)

Deposit a little hope this Holiday Season.

This year, the Missoula Food Bank needs your help more than ever. The Food Bank is being used by 25 percent more people than at this time last year, serving more than 5,000 clients every month. About 40 percent of them are hungry children. Thanks to our community’s generous giving and more than 750 volunteers, we’re able to help families who desperately need emergency food assistance.

Please help by giving to our 24th Annual Holiday Food Drive. Drop your non-perishable foods at any First Security Bank location before December 23.

To volunteer or learn more about the Missoula Food Bank, please call 549-0543.

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Immanuela Meijer hits the high pitches from C to middle C when the soprano performs a student recital at 7:30 PM, in UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free.

Christmas carols mingle charmingly with Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation” during the Bitterroot Valley Chorus Christmas Concert, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road in Hamilton. $5 suggested donation. Call Peter at 375-0331.

Jig yourself into a fury during a contra dance at the Northridge Lutheran Church gym, 323 Northridge Drive in Kalispell, which starts with dancing at 7:30 PM. Features celtic music by Skippin’ a Groove with calling by Morna Leonard. $15 family/$7 adults and teens/free for non-dancers. Call Joe at 752-7469.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Crush up some jalapeños, mix with rooster sauce and add a dash of cayenne on top in order to let the spice simmer in your feet during this month’s installment of Hot Salsa Nights, which starts at 8 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $7, with free dance lessons starting at 8:30 PM. A fallen soldier of metal gets adored and covered during the slayfest Dimestock 2009, a tribute to Pantera’s late Dimebag Darrel featuring locals Universal Choke Sign, Blessiddoom and Slit Throat, along with Butte’s River Runs Red at 9 PM at the Palace. $7. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Jazz up your dinner and drinks with a musical discount when The Discount Quartet plays

Finn & Porter, 100 Madison St., from 8–10 PM. Free to spectate.

If you missed them last night, you’ve another chance to stew yourself in rock, country or blues when The Roadhouse Band plays the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

Influences of The Grateful Dead and Leftover Salmon sizzle in a pan of “hippie tonk” when the Canyon Creek Ramblers countrify the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all naked at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free.

Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula, and so it’s time to start talking American. Free.

Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor. AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free.

The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free.

Call 370-3200.

Have one too many drinks and you just might start singing pop tunes backwards during Bassackwards Karaoke at Larry’s Six Mile Bar & Grill in Huson, 23384 Huson Road, every other Sat. at 9 PM. Free.

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Third Thursday Ladies Night Out.

hip-hop, electronic and other bass-heavy, booty-busting beats ‘til the bar closes, or at least until the vodka runs out, during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158.

If you missed ‘em last night you’ve got another chance to get a bachelor’s in rawk muzik when Zoo City rocks Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

Raise your fist and stomp one out in the name of solidarity when The Workers work you with Americana and bluegrass at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Blues licks meet horn tricks when Zeppo MT plays with Reverend Slanky at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Sunday brunch at 10 AM with jazz from Three of a Kind is classy so don’t just roll out of bed and head into the Blue Canyon Kitchen & Tavern, located in the Hilton Garden Inn at 3720 N. Reserve Street.

Catch new thoughts with the Science of Mind Community during a Sunday service via the Internet when Rev. Kathianne Lewis spreads a spiritual message for your viewing pleasure at the Carriage House in Hamilton, 310 N. Fourth St., at 10 AM. this and every Sun. Free. Call Barb at 375-9996.

Enhance your walls and impress your friends with work from past instructors, assistants and staff from the Rocky Mountain School of Photography during “Opening the Vault: Access to the RMSP Archives,” a sale of work from the school which runs from 10 AM–5 PM at the RMSP Gallery, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Call 543-0171 or visit rmsp.com.

The shimmering sounds of flutes float through the halls, while kids try their hands at ornament making and more at the Missoula Art Museum’s Holiday Weekend Fun activity, which runs from 10 AM–3 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free, includes performances by the Anna Semple Flute Duet at 1 and 1:30 PM, as well as a “creativity station” for kids to make ornaments. Call 728-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Engage your urge to peruse and buy one-ofa-kind crafts made by local artisans during the Missoula Holiday MADE Fair, which runs from 11 AM–6 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., as well as the Stensrud Building, 314 N. First St. W. Admission: suggested donation of a non-perishable food item to be given to the Missoula Food Bank. Visit missoulamadefair.com.

Quench your urge to watch football with others on several different televisions every Sun. at Lucky Strike Casino, 515 Dearborn Ave., and, if you’ve got the the gusto, belt out some bars during their karaoke contest which starts a 9:30 PM. Free. Call 549-4152.

Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-809-0112 to RSVP. Arts and crafts, caroling, a drawing and a visit from Santa all make for a “Christmas at the Symes,” which runs from noon–3 PM at the

Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St. Free.

Call 741-2361.

Myrt White shows the piano who’s boss at 1 PM while Donna Pecastaing follows at 4 PM when they both execute piano performances at Clock Court in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Call 721-5140.

Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “Happiness is a warm mitten!” Free. Call 543-7154.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol— The Musical, at 2 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $16. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Brighten a child’s holiday

Christmas carols mingle charmingly with Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation” during the B i t te r r o o t Va l l e y C h o r u s C h r i s t m a s Concert, which starts at 2 PM at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road in Hamilton. $5 suggested donation. Call Peter at 375-0331.

Classical music finds its influences in the beatitudes of Jesus Christ and the poetry of Rumi when violinist Richard Conviser plays a CD release concert for his album One Being Inside All with soprano Tonja King and pianist Jodi Marshall, at 3 PM at Saint Anthony Parish, 217 Tremont St. $10/$5 seniors and students.

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A farm girl from Kansas explores a land “beyond the rainbow” with help from a tin man, cowardly lion and others during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz, with a performance at 4 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $18/$16 seniors/$12 students. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Seek connection, mutual life, or even death using the ancient Japanese strategy game Go when a group of enthusiasts meets to play the game this and every Sun. at 4:30 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Email goinmissoula@yahoo.com.

nightlife Improvisational movement with others takes on an extemporaneous vibe during contact dance improv, this and every Sun. from 6:30–8:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5. Musicians are welcome and encouraged. E-mail missoulacontactimprov@gmail.com.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol— The Musical, at 6:30 PM at the theater, 200 N. Adams St. $18/$15 for children 18 and younger. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

You too can practice guided, affirmative and visual meditation with others when Rev. Jennifer Hackenbruch leads a session every second and fourth Sunday of the month from 7–8 PM at Unity Church, 546 South Ave. W. Love offering appreciated. Call 370-9631.

You can help make the holidays a little brighter for kids in need.

Just pick up a Mountain of Giving gift tag at any MFCU location, purchase an item on that child’s wish list, and return the unwrapped gift to any MFCU branchbefore branch Mountain before December December 18 18thth.. Mountain of Giving volunteers will wrap the gifts and distribute them in time for the holiday.

Cash donations are also accepted.

Warm up from the wintery frost with some steaming jazz vocals and licks courtesy of the Jeni Fleming Group, which plays this month’s installment of Daly Jazz, a monthly jazz concert at 240 Daly Ave., at 7 PM. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 7:30 PM. Free. This week: Jazz from the Donna Smith Trio, the Sam White Quartet and DJ Gary Stein.

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The works of J.S. Bach, John Rutter and Vaughan Williams all get the string treatment, along with guest vocal stylings from countertenor Jason Abrams, when the String Orchestra of the Rockies presents its Holiday Concert: The Voice of the Season with a performance at 7:30 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. $20/$10 students with tickets at Rockin’ Rudys and Morgenroth Music. Visit sormt.org or call 493-2990.

St. Ste. H, which is back in action with free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week.

Call 830-3277.

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry. See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

Quit that dead-end job and head down to the Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center, 310 S. Curtis St., where you can brush up on your reading, writing and math skills in order to pass the GED or enroll in college during free adult education courses, every Mon.–Thu. from 8 AM–12 PM and 1–3 PM, as well as every Tue.–Thu. from 6–8 PM. Call 542-4015.

The weekend isn’t over ‘til you wrap it up with Jam Night at the Finish Line, 153 Meridian Road in Kalispell, with host Landslide at 8 PM. Free. Call 257-0248.

Bellow out your favorite pop tune so you can impress your friends and perhaps win a prize during a karaoke contest this and every Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations during Ladies’ Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Sun. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson

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Support your spine and tap into your inner core during a Pilates Mat Class with Avril Stevenson this and every Mon. until Dec. 16 at 8 AM and again at 5:30 PM, at Studio D, 420 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. D. $12, with all levels welcome. Call 360-7421.

Now that you’ve moved here, it’s time to start speakin’ ‘Merican and learning about our wonderful banking and health care systems (you can tell I’m joking, right?), as well as our educational system during Adult Basic Education courses at the Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center, every Mon. and Wed. at 8:30 AM at the center, 310 S. Curtis St. Free. Call 542-4015.

SPOTLIGHT

current carol

Every year someone revamps A Christmas Carol for good or bad.

For instance, I made the unfortunate decision once to watch “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” starring Vanessa Williams on the Lifetime channel and the horrendous acting in that will haunt me forever.

Good thing we have plenty of talent and creative insight in this town. Last year the Montana Actors Theatre produced A Christmas Carol in inventive German Expressionist style. This year we have Craig Menteer to thank for his modern rendition of the story, titled An Xmas Present. Menteer stars as Scrooge and the ever-talented David Mills-Low stars as Bob Cratchit. Director Geoffrey Pepos and Director of Photography Jon Aaseng interweave the stage production with film, breathing life into a contemporary world straight out of some Big Brother future (or is it the present?). Scrooge as a CEO runs the company InformaServe Surveillance, Tiny Tim skateboards and only speaks in ad slogans and Mrs. Cratchit is a shopaholic.

WHAT: An Xmas Present WHEN: Wed., Dec. 16–Wed. Dec. 23, 7:30 PM nightly WHERE: Crystal Theatre HOW MUCH: $12/$10 student rush

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Unfortunately, like my Vanessa Williams experience, you will be treated to some horrifying acting. Our very own diva—I mean, editor of the Indy—Skylar Browning plays a brief role in the film part of the production as Chris Croft, a television reporter who interviews Bob Cratchit about Scrooge and the surveillance company. Yikes. In a production that mines the best talent of Missoula, let’s just say Browning might be better left to a role in Battlefield Earth. Poor dude. It’s embarrassing. At any rate, he might be worth seeing for the laughs—that sort of so-badit’s-good type of acting.

As for the rest of the production, Menteer’s well known in this town for offbeat, witty entertainment, so check out the play for its comedic and, perhaps, chillingly true-to-life take on greed and goodwill. And as for our editor, please try to be kind.

—Erika Fredrickson

Renew and connect with the natural world, for free, during a Vinyasa Yoga class that meets this and every Thu. from 5:30–6:30 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. Free, until 2010. Visit terangaarts.googlepages.com.

Get those endorphins pumpin’ late in the day when you join professional runner Meg Lerch for tempo runs and drills during Thursday Tempo Runs, every Thu. at 5:30 PM starting with a stretch at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA/Free to Run Wild Missoula Members. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

You have to sign up, or already be a member, but if you’re part of the Missoula Art Museum’s Contemporary Collectors Circle, don’t miss its annual acquisition party at 5:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Cost TBA. Party includes participation in acquisition of artwork for the MAM collection, as well as a discussion on the development of the collection and more. Call Ted Hughes at 728-0447 ext. 222 to join the CCC, or to RSVP for the event.

Connect your mind and soul to whatever deity you deem divine during a taize chanting circle with Rev. Jennifer Hackenbruch and Erin Barnes the second and fourth Thu. of the month at 6 PM at 2237 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 370-9631.

After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171.

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free.

Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

Local artist Marlo Crocifisso guides your 13to18-year-old towards a fervor for silhouettes and stenciling during Teen Open Studio Night, where Crocifisso teaches professional stenciling techniques to your kid from 6–8 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call Linden at 728-0447 ext. 230, or visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Putting Marilyn Manson’s version of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” on repeat probably isn’t going to help your kid sleep. You should be able to find some better tips during “Ages 0–5 Survival Guide: Sweet Dreams,” a class on healthy sleeping patterns and strategies which runs from 6–7:30 PM at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St. $12 couple/$10 museum members. RSVP by calling 721-7690.

Perhaps you’ll find a new calling during the Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club, which meets at 6 PM at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, and features discussion of Thomas Moore’s book A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born To Do. Free. Call 363-1670.

Andrea Harsell might just play a benevolent game of musical bait and switch when she performs what could be bluegrass, folk, country or rock at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

They’ve tackled the ins and outs of html in order to make spiffy webpages for two nonprofit orgs. Now you can see the fruits of labor from students with UM’s management information systems program during an inaugural website competition which starts at 6 PM, in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-4569.

Exercise those creative fingers in order to stencil, stamp, make recycled scrap designs and more during “Holiday Card Making: Recycled!”, a workshop that runs from 6–8 PM at Noteworthy Paper & Press, 101 S. Higgins Ave. $25. Call 541-6683.

If you’ve got a bit of Irish or Scottish in ye, help others keep the heritage of your ancestry alive during a meeting of the 2010 Bitterroot Scottish Irish Festival committee, which meets at 6:30 PM at the Hidden Legend Winery, 1345 Hwy. 93 N. #5, just 5.5 miles south of Victor. Free. Call Ken at 363-6323 or Eric at 381-3630.

Get exposed to “Understanding Exposure,” in the realm of photography, when the Rocky Mountain Photography Club presents a lecture on the topic by Neil Chaput de Saintonge at 6:30 PM, at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven doublespaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

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You just might do the push, whip or the jitterbuglindy when Cathy Clark slings beginning swing dance lessons every Thu. at 7 PM, and then moves to beyond basics swing lessons at 7:30 PM, at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., with open dancing from 8–10 PM. $5 person for dance lessons. E-mail cathyc@missoulaboneandjoint.com.

You can waltz, cha cha, swing, salsa, merengue and even bust a cupid shuffle during a variety line dance class which meets this and every Thu. until Dec. 17 from 7–8 PM at the Dance Studio, 2105 Bow St. $24 person. Call 529-3204.

VS MSU-Northern Lights Wed., Dec. 16th @ 7:00pm Spirit Squad, the UM Pep Band, and Monte Mismo Gymnastics Halftime Performance

Consumption, controversy and a look at the consequences of environmental de-regulation under Dubya comprise what should be an interesting night when The Story of Stuff screens at 7 PM, followed by A Snowmobile for George, all at the University Center Theater. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

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Lingerie will be modeled, hair and makeup styles will be shown off, and wounded veterans will be honored during the First Annual Midnight Dreams Calendar Girl Competition, which starts at 7 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. Free to attend. Donation’s will be collected by models at the event to support the Wounded Warrior Project. Call 830-3277.

The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

(See Theater in this issue.)

Indulge in the sweeping motions of modern dance from three different visual perspectives when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance Up Close, a series of nine original dance pieces with performances starting at 7:30 PM, in the Masquer Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under.

Call 243-4481 or visit umtheatredance.org.

Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet absorb themselves with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10.

Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets.

(See Theater in this issue.)

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Shoot your energy levels through the roof with Hillary Funk Welzenbach when she leads a Sabar African Dance Class, an all-level Senegalese dance class with live drumming, which meets this and every Mon. from 8–9 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. $8. Visit terangaarts.googlepages.com.

Bingo is no longer in the domain of the geriatric when Colin Hickey leads Rawk ‘N Roll Bingo at 8:30 PM at the Badlander with the first bingo card for free, subsequent cards for $1. Free.

Also includes a free nacho bar.

Who says America never invented a pub sport?

Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Kick off your week with a drink and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace.

Free. This week: live hip-hop from locals Traffic, Linkletter and Washington’s EvRGrN. Enjoy a night of reggae with the woman known as “Black Cinderella” when Brooklyn’s Sister Carol brings heady vibes to the Top Hat at 9 PM. $15/$12 pre-sale at Rockin Rudy’s or myspace.com/montanareggae. Opening support from the Bay Area’s Yellow Wall Dub Squad.

See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted

by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM. Free.

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night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Mon. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

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Help keep others in Missoula from going hungry by donating either non-perishable food items or money to the Missoula Food Bank, 219 S. Third St. W., during its annual holiday drive, which lasts through Dec. 23. Drop off times are: Mon.–Tue. from 8 AM–7 PM and Wed.–Fri. from 8 AM–3 PM. Call Nick Roberts at 549-0543. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Kids learn the intricacies of fluid movement with help from stories or objects during Family in Motion: Dance Exploration, which starts at 11 AM at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-7529.

Moms get a minute away from their kids and can vent their joys, and frustrations, of being a parent during Mom Me Time, at 11:30 AM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-7690.

Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

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Teens ages 13–18 stir their creative juices during Teen Media Club every Tue. at 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library computer classroom, where video creation, music mixing and digital art formulation are all the rage. Free. This week features a pro from MCAT who’s going to help you create your own short video. Call 721-2665.

nightlife Find the outlet for that excess energy when Gillian Kessler takes you through the flow of it all during World Rhythm Yoga Class every Tue. at 5 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Ladies, celebrate your feminist tendencies with cheap drinks when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Ladies’ Night every Tue. from 5 PM to close.

Free. Call 370-3200.

Hey, we all overindulge sometimes, but when you’ve had enough, head down to Take off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a meeting which starts with a weigh-in between 5 and 5:30 PM, followed by a meeting at 5:30, this and every Tue. at the Rocky Mountain Lodge in Whitefish, 6510 Hwy. 93 S. Free. Call 862-1233.

It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Bluegrass at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

Flush the early week stress from your system with a Tuesday Track Workout featuring speed training by UM women’s track coach Courtney Babcock every Tue. at 6 PM at Dornblaser Field, on the corner of Higgins and South avenues. Free for Run Wild Missoula members/Cost TBA for others. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

Scrooge acts as a big bad CEO of a surveillance company, Tiny Tim skirts around on a skateboard and Mrs. Cratchit treats shopping like it’s heroin during a gala performance of Craig

Menteer’s An Xmas Present, at 6 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $50, includes glass of champagne and dinner at the Silk Road after the production. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at anxmaspresent.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

A single bracelet does not jingle: Unity Dance and Drum’s all-levels West African Dance Class meets every Tue. evening at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10 per class/$35 for four classes. Call 549-7933.

Beginners can try their hand with more experienced folks during a Beginner/Intermediate World Fusion Bellydance class, which takes place every Tue. at 6:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000 or email thebellytent@hotmail.com.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.

You never know what you’ll find—except for probably a bunch of womyn—at Womyn’s Night at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

Grab the rooster sauce and get spicy when the Downtown Dance Collective’s Heather Adams presents beginning salsa dance lessons at 6 PM, every Tue. at the Badlander. $7/per class per person.

Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson, and get buy-one-get-one-free drink tickets, during an open mic night every Tue. at the Brooks and Brown Lounge at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com.

You’ve practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence, where open mic night features a drum set, amps, mics and recording equipment and awaits you and your axe at 8 PM. Free. Call 273-9992 to reserve your spot.

Gothic horror, classic film and Victorian melodrama satirically collide in a play where two male actors play eight roles during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s auditions for The Mystery of Irma Vep, which start at 7 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. Free. The show will be performed in June, with scripts available at the Flathead County Library. Call Nancy at 862-5371 Ext. 223 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Enjoy Tunes on Tuesdays with Christian Johnson from 8:30–11 PM, an acoustic open mic jam every Tue. night at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Figure out how to balance and saturate your digital photos to utmost perfection when Forest Chaput de Saintonge leads the lecture “An Introduction to Adobe Lightroom,” at 7 PM at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-0171 or visit rmsp.com.

It’s still bigger than disco: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., keeps on keepin’ it real for those in the know every Tue. at 8:30 PM, when Intermediate Hip-Hop Class puts the “back” back in “back in the day.”

Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Get down in the company of others with everyone’s favorite English bard during the Missoula Public Library’s Everyone’s Shakespeare Reading Group, which meets at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. This month’s selection is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Call 721-BOOK.

The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

Those that have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on during a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

Rehash the music of others, or have the guts to play a few of your own, when the Canyon Creek Ramblers host an open mic night this and every Tue. at 9 PM at the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free, with free beers for performers.

Waves of sky-scraping notes waft through the air when soprano Brooke Gardner performs a student recital at 7:30 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

Get dirty in the face of aural rebellion when Unwashed Promotions presents DJs Harvey and Heyska, playing an array of punk and ska tunes at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? Which phylum does the deadly scorpion belong to? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

Entropy is a thing to be embraced when under the spell of the rock and classic rock chops of Celestial Chaos, who play the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Even Joseph Smith summons himself to display the sign of the horns when Portland pop rocker Jerry Joseph plays the Palace at 9 PM. $8. Wartime Blues opens. (See Noise in this issue.)

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Support your spine, and tap into your inner core during a Pilates Mat Class with Avril Stevenson this and every Wed. until Dec. 16 at 8 AM and again at 5:30 PM, at Studio D, 420 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. D. $12, with all levels welcome. Call 360-7421.

Breath and movement flirt while you create heat from deep within during Power Yoga, a Vinyasa Flow class lead by Veronica DeSoyza that meets this and every Wed. at 9 AM until Dec. 22 at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

Learn how to alert others when you’re in danger of being buried by tufts of snow during a UM Campus Recreation Department avalanche transceiver clinic on Dec. 19, which you must be signed up for by today. $15, includes instruction and beacons. Sign up by calling 243-5172 or visiting UM’s Fitness and Recreation Center. Class runs from 9 AM–2 PM on Dec. 19.

Morning Melodies, a free, funfilled, family-friendly music event tailored to preschoolers, occurs every Wed. at Montana Coffee Traders in downtown Whitefish at 10 AM. Free.

Give your kid something to hoot about at Preschool Story Time at the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, when storyteller Joetta Lawrence presents the program “Hoot Owls” from 10:30–11:30 AM. Free. Call 363-1670.

Art projects, educational games and storytime activities aim to stimulate your 3- to 7-year-old’s mind into Sir Isaac Newton-like capabilities during Ready Set Read at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front.

St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. Keep the spirit of Christmas alive for your kids ages 7 and younger during a weekly, holiday-themed story time which runs this and every Wed. until the end of the month at Stevensville’s North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St. Free, includes snacks, craft projects and more. Call 777-5061.

Children learn basic art skills and engage their senses in different mediums and techniques during an

A lone figure tiptoes toward the edge when artist Rebecca G. Weed presents a Second Friday opening for Forever and a Day: Works on Paper Fri., Dec. 11, at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W., from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free. Call 549-7555. afterschool kids’ art class, which meets from 3:30–5:30 PM at Shadow Mountain Art Studio, 2825 Stockyard Road A-10, behind Johnny Carino’s. $20 per class with all materials included. E-mail Emily at missoulasartgym@yahoo.com.

nightlife Dudes and duderinos, it’s your time to imbibe all day with drink specials this and every Wed. when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Men’s Day. Free. Call 370-3200.

Your mid-week beer buzz can help kids suffering from cancer attend Camp Mak-a-Dream for free during a pint night fundraiser for Camp Mak-a-Dream, which runs from 5–8 PM at the Kettlehouse’s Northside Tap Room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend, with a portion of proceeds from each beer sold given to the organization. Call 728-1660.

Channel yourself through a vessel of your own device in order to hear the rollicking blues of Sour D and the Pipecleaner, who blues up Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Company, 114 Main St, at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680 or visit blacksmithbrewing.com.

Develop eloquence in the face of inebriation, as well as impressive business contacts, when Toastmasters meets this, and every, Wed. at 6 PM in St. Patrick Hospital’s Duran Learning Center. Free. Call 728-9117.

Blue Argon plays eclectic blues, R&B, and jazz featuring Colleen Cunningham, Steve Sellars and Jim Clayborn every Wed. at 6 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell.

Free. Call 755-9463.

Learn to bump and grind, shimmy and shake and strut your stuff like a pro every Wed. evening at 6 PM during a Burlesque Dance Class at the Red Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. Call Kelli Neumeyer at 531-2482.

It’s once again time to render flesh, muscles and an assortment of body parts into a work of genius during the Missoula Art Museum’s noninstructed figure drawing classes, from 6–8 PM this and every Wed. at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $7/$5 members. Participants must be 18 and over. Call 728-0447.

Watch John Floridis tame the spirits in his acoustic guitar when he plays the Spice of Life in Hamilton, 163 S. Second St., from 6–8 PM. Free. Call 363-4433 or 363-6963.

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A keen interest in digital social media translates into face-to-face contact during Social Media Club Missoula’s Holiday Meetup, which starts at 6 PM at The Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St. Free to attend, but bring a white elephant gift to exchange. Visit smcmissoula.com.

W. Main St., presents Beginning Ballet. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Find out the difference between regular pilates and pilates from the Big Apple when Alison Laundrie leads a New York Style Pilates class every Wed. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 6:30 PM. $12.

RSVP 541-2673.

Scrooge acts as a big bad CEO of a surveillance company, Tiny Tim skirts around on a skateboard and Mrs. Cratchit treats shopping like it’s heroin during performances of Craig Menteer’s An Xmas Present, at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12, with tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at anxmaspresent.com. Student rush tickets available for $10 at 7:15 PM..

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

Having fully bitched out Barnes & Noble, the Missoula Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle brings the circle of warm fuzzies to the Good Food Store, where you can knit purls of wisdom every Wed. at 7 PM. Free.

BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

Organizational and sci-fi enthusiasts can satisfy both cravings by attending bimonthly meetings of MisCon, Montana’s longest running science fiction convention, the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 7 PM at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. Free.

Call 544-7083.

Being square will never be as much fun as it is at square dancing lessons every Wed. at the Kalispell Senior Center.

7 PM. $4, children 12 and under must bring an adult. Call 752-4964.

If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 7 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Expect old faves and medley’s that tug you into the holiday spirit when the Flathead Valley Community Band performs its holiday concert “Christmas Keepsakes, From Mannheim to Bedford Falls” at 7 PM at the Ballroom of Kalispell’s Red Lion Hotel, 20 N. Main St. Free. Call Cathryn at 862-5457 or visit fvcband.org.

Grab that tutu and slap on some ballet shoes every Wed. at 7:20 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121

Release that mid and late week stress during Tai Chi Chuan classes every Wed. at 7:30 PM and every Sat. at 10 AM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. $10/class. Call Chris at 728-0918.

Hump day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other like-minded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-1471.

He picks with style and grace, as well as a smile on his face. Catch Tom Catmull when he plays a solo acoustic set at Sean Kelly’s Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St., at 8 PM. Free. Call 830-3210.

Extend yourself beyond regular ballet using emotion through movement to tell stories and interpret music when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Lyrical Class every Wed. at 8:30 PM. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: The scorpion, with its deadly stinger, belongs to the phylum known as Arthropoda.

The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts Ladies’ Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free.

Be sure you’ve downed enough PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson Airplane, or a similar tune, during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

See a plethora of patterns and colors— after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prizewinning classics during Kaleidoscope

Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Bluegrass lends a helping hand to those in need of shelter when Broken Valley Roadshow plays the Poverello Rock Raiser at 9 PM, at the Palace. $5.

Be sure you’ve grabbed yourself a designated driver so you can imbibe during Wasted Wednesdays at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which offers drink specials and starts at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010.

Kids and parents experiment with rhythm and more during Rhythm Tykes, a class for kids 18 months–4 years old this and every Thu. at 10 AM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. $40 five classes/$10 class. Call 396-3352.

If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a

movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you run a nonprofit, or are considering starting one, don’t miss the Missoula Nonprofit Network workshop “Major Donor Management and Solicitation,” which runs from 11:30 AM–1 PM at the MonTec Conference Room, 1121 E. Broadway St. $10/free members of the Missoula Nonprofit Network. RSVP with Leah by e-mailing sits@mountainhomemt.org.

Fight for the right to belt out a semicoherent version of The Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” every Wed. during Combat Karaoke at Rowdy’s Cabin, 4880 N. Reserve St., at 10 PM. Free. Call 543-8001.

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Help keep others in Missoula from going hungry by donating either nonperishable food items or money to the Missoula Food Bank, 219 S. Third St. W., during its annual holiday drive, which lasts through Dec. 23.

Drop off times are: Mon.–Tue. from 8 AM–7 PM and Wed.–Fri. from 8 AM–3 PM. Call Nick Roberts at 5490543. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are

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Shake it ‘til you break it when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., offers Booty Ballet every Thu. at noon. $12/$10 members.

Call 541-7240.

Bring your lunch and an appetite for discussion when the Bitterroot Public Library’s “Brown Bag It” book discussion group meets at noon at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. This week’s book is The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. Call 363-1670.

I’m sure it smells sweeter than a chili cook-off: join other UM students and their families for the 12th Annual Great UM Christmas Cookie CookOff, which runs from 2–6 PM in the Food Zoo in UM’s Lommasson Center. Free. Half of the cookies baked are donated to local nonprofit orgs, while you take the rest home. Call 243-6433.

Children learn basic art skills and engage their senses in different mediums and techniques during an afterschool kids’ art class, which meets from 3–5:30 PM at Shadow Mountain Art Studio, 2825 Stockyard Road A-10, behind Johnny Carino’s. $20 per class with all materials included.

E-mail Emily at missoulasartgym@yahoo.com.

Kids seize tips on maintaining a good set of pearly whites during Afterschool Adventures: Healthy U featuring “the Dentist” at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541PLAY or visit familiesfirstmontana.org to register.

Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 3- to 6-year-old might need some work, so bring them to another installment of Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 4 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Help your kid between the grades of seven nine become the next Margaret Atwood Scribbles, a new writers’ group that meets 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Wiggle those hips and strike poses of elegant expression when former UM dance prof Amy Ragsdale leads a Beginning to Intermediate Modern Dance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., every Thu. at 5 PM. Cost TBA. Call 541-7240.

Thin pieces of wood will be blown to twofold perfection when A Double Reed Christmas performs at 5 PM at Clock Court in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free, followed by performances by the Missoula Strings on Tour at 6, VSA Choir at 7 and pianist Janean McBrideRowland at 7:30 PM. Call 721-5140.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, nortec—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. Call 396-3352.

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Renew and connect with the natural world, for free, during a Vinyasa Yoga class that meets this and every Thu. from 5:30–6:30 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. Free, until 2010. Visit terangaarts.googlepages.com.

Get those endorphins pumpin’ late in the day when you join professional runner Meg Lerch for tempo runs and drills during Thursday Tempo Runs, every Thu. at 5:30 PM starting with a stretch at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA/free to Run Wild Missoula Members. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

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Sunday, December 13, 2009 7:30pm UM Music Recital Hall Featuring excerpts from Handel's Messiah and Pachelbel's famous Canon in D $20 general, $10 students Tickets are available at Rockin Rudy's, Morgenroth Music, Fact & Fiction, at the door and online at www.sormt.org For more information call 493-2990 or email finemusic@sormt.org

Explore the expressionist artworks of the late Freeman Butts while sauntering to the twang of Bob Wire during Artini: Gifts, which runs from 5:30–9 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Includes discussion on expressionism by MAM registrar Ted Hughes at 6 PM. Call 728-0447.

After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171.

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free.

Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

If you witnessed last week’s “calendar girls competition” at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, now’s your chance to check the photo shoot for the calendar, which starts at 6 PM at the bar. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

Piano and tranquil vocals mix majestically with barley and hops when Danielle Oliver plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven doublespaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

You just might do the push, whip or the jitterbuglindy when Cathy Clark slings beginning swing

dance lessons every Thu. at 7 PM, and then moves to beyond basics swing lessons at 7:30 PM, at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., with open dancing from 8–10 PM. $5 person for dance lessons. E-mail cathyc@missoulaboneandjoint.com.

You can waltz, cha cha, swing, salsa, merengue and even bust a cupid shuffle during a variety line dance class which meets this and every Thu. until Dec. 17 from 7–8 PM at the Dance Studio, 2105 Bow St. $24 person. Call 529-3204.

Does your philosophical outlook mirror that of Nietzsche or Kirkegaard? Find out during Socrates Café, a philosophy discussion group at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Intertwine yourself with a foreign film that touches on biological diversity, sexual behavior and more when the Bitterrot Public Library presents a screening of The Country Teacher at 7 PM at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton.

Free. Call 363-1670.

The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Scrooge acts as a big bad CEO of a surveillance company, Tiny Tim skirts around on a skateboard and Mrs. Cratchit treats shopping like it’s heroin during performances of Craig Menteer’s An Xmas Present, at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12, with tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at anxmaspresent.com. Student rush tickets available for $10 at 7:15 PM. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Bring yer guitar, bass or other instrument of choice every Thu. night to The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, when it holds an open-mic style artists showcase at 8 PM. Free. Interested musicians should Call 541-8463.

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Bowling and karaoke go together like Iraq and stability during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3.

Get your fix with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

Bassackwards Karaoke turns your world underside-up every Thu. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on Airway Boulevard. Free. Call 531-8327.

Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free.

Clench your face in preparation for some heavy bass therapy during Bass Face Round 3, a dance party featuring dubstep, hip-hop, downtempo and other bass-friendly electronic styles at 9 PM at the Top Hat. Free. Features sets by Bight Club, Larva Ink, Ebola Syndrome and more.

Let the colors and words wash over you when Seattle artist Tom Dewar shows and sells his wares—stylized rock poster from Missoula’s past and present is one of his specialties—at the Palace at 7 PM. Free.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H,

which is back in action with free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week. Call 830-3277.

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free.

Cross your karaoke sword with others under the influence of that music box you sing along to during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

Ever wonder where flourishing artists got their start? Here’s a clue: Head on over to peruse UM’s 23rd Annual Art Annex Holiday Juried Show and Sale, which starts Thu., Dec. 10 at 9 AM in UM’s Art Annex, located adjacent to the Grizzly Pool. It features a number of top student ceramic and sculptural works, as well as pieces from Julia Galloway, UM School of Art director and ceramicist. One other thing: All proceeds from the sale go toward scholarships, student travel to conferences and more for two student groups, UM’s Emerging Ceramic Artists and the Student Sculpture Association. Find out more by calling professor Beth Lo at 243-6476 or e-mailing her at elizabeth.lo@umontana.edu. In the meantime, keep me in the know of your artistic pursuits by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 11, to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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Even as our thermometers dip into subzero temps, I know there’s a part of you that wants to buck up and trek around our terrains for a little exercise and outdoor fun.

If you’re one of those peeps, make a mental note this week that Mount Jumbo’s north and south zones are now closed for winter and won’t open again until spring, in order to accommodate the 75 or so elk that come down to graze in these lower elevations. The north zone runs from Saddle Road (located at the north end of Lincoln Hills Drive) to the north and opens back up on May 1. The south zone runs from Saddle Road above and south to I-90 and reopens March 15. Of course, you’re still free to hike up to the L, as well as the U.S. West road, which runs parallel to I-90. Just be sure to have your dog leashed, okay? Visit missoulaparks.org or call Morgan Valliant at 552-6263.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s begin this week with a tasty potluck, specifically, a free Christmas Potluck with the Montana Native Plant Society which starts at 6:30 PM, Thu., Dec. 10 in the Del Brown Room of UM’s Turner Hall.

Plan to go if you’ve already been on outings with these folks, or if you’re just curious to learn more about the club. Be sure to bring plates, utensils and a dish to share, as well as any digital photos of native plants you took over the summer. Call Peter at 728-8740 or visit mtnativeplants.org.

On Fri., Dec. 11, all snow zealots ought to take a trip either to Bozeman or near White Sulphur Springs as both Bridger Bowl and the Showdown Montana ski area open that day. Bozeman’s Bridger Bowl will be open at 9 AM for ripping and costs $45 for an adult day-pass, or $37 for a half-day pass. Showdown Montana—located at 2850 US Hwy 89 S., about 40 miles north of White Sulphur Springs, near the town of Niehart—opens at 9:30 AM and an adult all-day pass is $35, while a half-day pass is $29. Be sure to check conditions, though, as the weather could prove unsavory. For Bridger, call the snow phone at 586-2389 or click over to bridgerbowl.com, and for Showdown, call the powder line at 771-1300 or visit showdownmontana.com.

If you’re able to zoom back to Missoula that night, meet with those mountainous crevice climbers known as the Rocky Mountaineers during their holiday party, which starts at 6 PM, Fri., Dec. 11 at the upstairs dining area of The Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St. It’s free for all to attend, but dinner and drinks are on your own tab.

I’d suggest going if you’d like to network with these hiking/climbing enthusiasts. E-mail Forest at mtnear1@gmail.com, or ring him at 2407612, and visit rockymountaineers.com.

As Sat., Dec. 12 rears its relaxed head, appease your urge to spend it in the snow by heading back over to the Bozeman area in

Kellie Carim at 10 AM Sat., Dec. 12 at the Pattee Canyon ski trail. If conditions are bad, plans change, so click to missoulanordic.org for updates and info on other upcoming events. From what I can tell the event is free, but they do want you to join their club if you’d like to continue to participate in its activities. A one-year membership costs $18 for one person, or $30 per family, with more details on their website.

When the workweek hits Mon., Dec. 14, all runners should get tips on “How to Stay Motivated to Run/Walk in the Winter” when professional runner Courtney Babcock leads a lecture on the topic at 7 PM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA/Free for Run Wild Missoula members. Includes tips on how to dress appropriately and how to avoid bodily injury while running/walking on snow and ice. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

If running after birds suits you better, make sure you bolt to one of two discussions regarding upcoming Audubon Society Christmas bird counts on Mon., Dec. 14. The first is hosted by the Flathead Audubon Society’s Dan Casey and starts at 7 PM in the Community Room of The Summit, 205 Sunnyview Lane in Kalispell.

Free. Call 837-0181 and visit flatheadaudubon.org. Your second option is closer to home when Larry Weeks and Jim Brown of the Five Valley’s Audubon Society discuss the Missoula count at 7:30 PM, in Room L14 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Visit fvamissoula.org.

Before I leave you this week, I’ve got two more important events that just burst onto my horizon. The first is the Missoulians On Bicycles Holiday Party/ Cycling Presentation, which starts at 6:30 PM in the MultiPurpose Room of Paxson School, 101 Evans St. Free, but Photo by Alex Sakariassen bring a dish to share and visit missoulabike.org.

Finally, learn how to alert others when you’re in danorder to enjoy the first day of public skiing at Big Sky’s ger of burial by snow during an avalanche transceiver clinic, which Moonlight Basin. The mountain is slated to open at 9 AM with a you need to sign up for by Wed., Dec. 16 at UM’s Outdoor Program, full-day adult ticket running you $55, while a half-day ticket costs $45. in UM’s Fitness and Recreation Center. $15, includes instruction and As always, check the snow report before you hit I-90 by calling 993- beacons, with the clinic itself running from 9 AM–2 PM on Sat., 6666 or visiting moonlightbasin.com.

Dec. 19. Call 243-5172.

Maybe you’re one of those types that freaks out when shooting At this point, I’ll part with some advice: Bundle up, brave the eledown a mountain on a pair of skis, but loves being able to glide around ments, eat well and play hard, but be safe. on them in Pattee Canyon. If that’s the case, join members of the Missoula Nordic Ski Club for a classic technique ski clinic by calendar@missoulanews.com

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Vera takes on the “F” word in Pupils Black to Black

by Erika Fredrickson

Marshall writes the songs for Vera, but she writes them with Parsons in mind. While Pupils Black to Black explores many themes, a couple of the songs inevitably document where Vera first started out—the trials and tribulations of motherhood. “Demons From the Cure,” for instance, captures Marshall venting about when she first started raising her kids, intent on keeping a tight ship, keeping everything clean and excelling at anything she did.

“But I was miserable,” says Marshall. “Now, I feel like I’m going through a mini renaissance of thought and I don’t know if that has to do with being in my late 30s or if it has to do with coming out of surviving young children mode.”

of support—or perceived lack—to change that.

Marshall still questions whether she was ever viewed as a serious musician.

“I just always felt like I was frosting on the cake,” Marshall says. “I did feel a part of the band but I always felt like I had this inferior role. In fact, people even wrote about it in the scene back then, that they didn’t even think of me as being in the band.”

Despite a strong focus on women and motherhood, Vera’s lyrics cover plenty of other material. “S Bomb” delves into suicide bombings. “All Leaves for Noah” pays tribute to a longtime rock scene member, Noah Jennings, who died of brain cancer last year.

“Blood of Evil” is a reaction to the seedy news stories of women and kids who’ve suffered abuse.

“I work with abused and emotionally disturbed kids,” says Parsons. “I get so numb to it because I hear these horrible, horrible things every day and I just kind of let it wash over me. But when I sing that songit just makes it really real for me. I think it’s important.” She pauses and then slyly adds, “And, it’s a badass song.”

That’s the thing with Vera—there’s nothing soft about the band’s approach.

On the album and onstage, Marshall plays galloping, minor key rock chords with a menacing confidence.

Pa r s o n s w i e l d s t o u g h straight-up rock beats, matching the often-changing tempos that make Vera songs more progressive and metal than any kind of verse-chorus-verse pop music. Parsons deftly pulls Drummer Jen Tachovsky Parsons, left, and guitarist Cindy Laundrie Marshall comprise Vera, which releases its off singing and drumming debut album this week. “I don’t want Vera to be a novelty,” says Parsons. “I want to just be one of the bands duty, and together the duo’s that plays in Missoula.” harmonies create sweet and On the matter of women in rock, Parsons and sinister vocal tones. More to the point, there’s nothhire babysitters if only to get away for an afternoon or evening. The two often sat in Marshall’s VW van Marshall are torn. They want to talk about Vera as ing conventionally “mom-ish” or “girly” about it. It’s to have a couple of beers or drove around to vent. just a band without having to discuss gender. For a way, they say, to express their current experiences But then they began using the van as a practice instance, Marshall doesn’t like the word “feminist.” without losing the edgy rock ’n’ roll sensibilities “Why is feminism the real ‘F’ word?,” she says. from their past. space to experiment with music on an acoustic gui“I think when people hear the word ‘feminism’ tar and a child’s drum kit.

“We should never have to compress [ourselves] “I’m not thankful for having a colicky baby,” says they shut down.” into the roles handed down to us by previous generMarshall, who, around the same time, started experiBut both musicians say they feel strongly about ations,” Marshall says. “We need to forge our own menting with playing guitar. “But if it wasn’t for hav- the implication of the word because their experiences path. On one hand we’re just a band. But in other ing a colicky baby, Vera probably wouldn’t exist.” ways it’s a big thing. Everyone has to take risks, even in the rock scene are inextricably tied to the issue.

Since its early van practices, Vera has blossomed “Girls in rock ’n’ roll are novelties,” Parsons little ones. It’s about planting seeds and it really into a formidable local band. The duo played at says. “I think that’s really interesting because plen- only took a little sprinkling of water for us to form Missoula’s ever-growing indie rock festival Total Fest ty of girls listen to rock ’n’ roll and I don’t under- this band. Now it’s taking on a life of its own.” in both 2008 and 2009. They were the obvious stand why they don’t pursue it. I don’t want Vera to Vera plays a CD release show at the choice to headline a recent benefit for the new be a novelty. I want to just be one of the bands that Badlander Friday, Dec. 11, at 9 PM with Secret Hellgate Roller Girls team. Now, with a new debut plays in Missoula.”

Powers and Butter. $5. album, Pupils Black to Black, and an upcoming The fact that both musicians were part of the release show, Marshall and Parsons don’t see them- Jay’s music scene did not stop them from noticing efredrickson@missoulanews.com selves putting Vera on the backburner anytime soon. the general lack of female musicians and the lack Back in the mid 1990s, when the dark and smoky Jay’s Upstairs was the main rock venue for local musicians, Cindy Laundrie Marshall fronted two different bands—Saved For This Dark Dawn and Spanker—and played drums in a short-lived duo called Sharky. Jen Tachovsky Parsons also rocked the Jay’s stage, as the drummer for the stalwart all-girl rock group Sasshole. But then, as time passed, Marshall and Parsons each got married and had kids, and any dreams of pursuing band life diminished under the weight of family responsibilities. Until recently.

In 2007, Marshall and Parsons had both suffered from the stress of colicky babies and sought precious time away from their family lives. They’d

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Universal Choke Sign Last Breath self-released

Missoula metal veterans Universal Choke Sign (UCS) nearly capture their frenetic live sound on their debut, Last Breath. The enthusiasm is present, but the band’s a victim of a dynamically squeezed production, which sucks some of the energy out of the final result.

That’s not unusual, it just leaves a lingering sense of “what if ” should this band be provided a larger recording budget.

The strength of UCS lurks in the groove-based foundation maintained by the rhythm section of drummer Dayv Drake and bassist Per Carlson. These guys provide just enough funky swing to keep songs like “Too” and “Pull” interesting. Meanwhile, dual guitars

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Although he has long flown under the mainstream radar, Jerry Joseph has maintained a fanatical following nonetheless. He took the Rockies and Northwest by storm in the 1980s with his rock/reggae group Little Women, toured with the hard-rocking Jackmormons, and collaborated with long-time musical allies Widespread Panic. He’s a force of nature.

He recently released this full-length album, along with dobro player Bret Mosley and drummer

Saviours Accelerated Living Kemado Records

Oakland’s primary peddlers of traditional metal mixed with tinges of stoner and thrash exhibit enough catchy riffs on their latest outing to prompt even the most modest metalhead to rip out quasi-air guitar solos while driving around Missoula. Well, at least that’s what happened to me after spinning this a few times.

Seriously though, Accelerated Living overflows with nearly flawless epic riffs and storming buildups, especially on opener “Acid Hand,” which starts with a hefty gallop, only to break into thrash tempo just over three minutes in. You’ll find a number of guitar

Reigning Sound Love and Curses In the Red

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chug along in vigorous unison; thick and meaty, the tones merge into a wall of sound best appreciated at high volume.

Guitarist Justin Tribble unleashes a tasty little solo in the breakdown of “Grudge” that hints he has chops beyond what he’s showing us. Singer JJ Keller has an excellent voice, but a little more emotional range beyond guttural rage would take these songs to another level while reducing none of their angry impact.

Regardless of nitpicks, this band delivers the goods every time out. Last Breath is an excellent debut and introduction to the band that should leave the metal faithful hungry for round two. (Chris La Tray) Universal Choke Sign plays Dimestock 2009 at the Palace Saturday, Dec. 12, at 8 PM with Blessiddoom, River Runs Red and Quietus. $7.

Steve Drizos. Largely acoustic and recorded entirely over a three-day session with vintage technology (think analog tape), the sound is raw, enigmatic and intense—just like Joseph himself. From the title track—a powerful tune about Election Day ’08, in which Joseph cautions, “Don’t tell us that it’s up to us, we’ll only let us down”—to the a cappella “On Time God,” about receiving help when you actually need it, not when you think you do, Joseph unfolds tunes that are honest, cynical and quirky, delivered in an unpolished, been-around-the-block voice. Yet the EP includes unexpected offerings as well, like a cover of Modest Mouse’s “Missed the Boat,” or the almostupbeat tune “Isabella Bird.” Together, they support the notion that Joseph is just as talented—and just as unpredictable—as ever. (Melissa Mylchreest) Jerry Joseph plays solo at the Palace Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 9 PM with Wartime Blues. $8. solos too, but they never become too self-indulgent and flow exceptionally well with the underlying guttural grooves of each song. Couple that with guitarist/vocalist Austin Barber’s lyrics that touch on, well, standard fare for old school metal like the apocalypse, paganism, demons and other meaty ingredients.

It’s probably a bit much to bat around the term “album of the year,” but Accelerated Living undoubtedly deserves a position as one of the top metal releases of 2009. (Ira Sather-Olson) rehashed old material for several years now, making this new album, Love and Curses, all the more sweet. It delivers the freshness Time Bomb had in spades.

“Brake It” and “Something to Hold Onto” showcase the classic Cartwright marriage between honeyed garage rock and lyrics bound by both afflicted heartache and biting bitterness. Cartwright calls out his lovers on vices and deceits all the while winding his way through Neil Diamond romantics, punk-rock angst and muddy guitar solos floating on a crest of organ melodies. Some songs, like “Debris,” feel awkward, and the gothic polka style of “Banker and a Liar,” though intriguing, seems like an unnecessary tribute to the Decemberists’ overdone style. Most importantly, Love and Curses steps up to Time Bomb, but with the maturity of heartbreak slowcooked over the years. (Erika Fredrickson)

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Death by design Two shows, one unmistakable theme

by Erika Fredrickson

It’s no wonder that the big questions of life and MAT’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead death unearth a certain amount of anxiety for most has a similar problem with finding the right tone, everyone. The idea of being interned in the ground but here it rests with the actor’s command of the for eternity, or facing some unknown afterlife is script’s rhythmic banter. Unlike Stoppard’s movie downright unsettling. In fact, you can think about it version starring Tim Roth and Gary Oldman, no too much, can’t you? long hallways or props of any kind serve as a distracBut death as subtext underlies the best theater, tion to the wordplay. And Jared Branden and especially when it comes to the classics. How people Richard Davenport, as Guildenstern and wrestle with issues of integrity in life and death’s looming presence comprises the fibers of Shakespeare’s best tragedies; in Hamlet, the question is, “To be, or not to be…?” In Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an existential extension of Hamlet, Rosencrantz asks, “Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?…It’s silly to be depressed by it. I mean, one thinks of it like being alive in a box. One keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which From left, Jeff Verlanic and Margi Cates star in UM’s production of Hamlet. should make all the difference, shouldn’t it?”

Rosencrantz, respectively, don’t leave the stage for This week, you get answers to both types of the entire three-hour play, except during intermisquestions when the Montana Actors’ Theatre (MAT) sion. Everything rests on their shoulders as they performs Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, unwittingly carry out a fool’s errand for Claudius directed by Carrie Ann Mallino, and the University of and, ultimately, meet their demise.

Montana’s School of Theatre & Dance stages While watching MAT’s production, I missed one Hamlet, directed by Greg Johnson. thing about the movie version: The way Oldman and The latter is, of course, the story of Hamlet Roth appear dazed, how they stammer and pause and the Prince of Denmark, who seeks revenge on his let the silence stretch out as they try to remember the uncle Claudius after he murdered Hamlet’s context of their lives. In MAT’s version, Davenport and father, stole the throne and married Hamlet’s Branden hit the ground running with quick lines, as if mother. Moral corruption, madness and murder they are normal people dropped onto a different planensue, with Hamlet’s soliloquies marking the et, and it’s a less mysterious effect. troubling themes of the story.

Beyond that quibble, MAT’s version beats the Johnson offers a James Dean take on the clas- movie. The Crystal Theatre’s spare set design and sic, and it makes sense. Hamlet was the brooding the lonely traveling bard music (rather than the rebel of his time, and Jeff Verlanic plays him with movie’s Pink Floyd soundtrack) sets a better mood. that air, strutting around in a leather jacket and Once Davenport and Branden loosen up and find a tousled hair. Verlanic plays both victim and vic- groove, their interaction and the wordplay seems timizer well, but he struggles through the most natural, and all the more fun to watch. cumbersome lines, stumbling in the language Death may be a morbid affair, but it doesn’t rather than channeling the proper emotions. haunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

That’s a criticism easily given to nearly all the When Rosencrantz laments under the dim lights, actors in UM’s show, and predictable for any non- “There must have been a moment at the beginning, professional Shakespeare production. where we could have said no,” there’s a fleeting Other issues are more problematic. First, moment where you, too, wonder what’s in store for everyone seems too emotionally wound up in the you. But then you get to keep laughing. first act. It’s as though the characters are already Hamlet continues at UM’s Montana Theatre anticipating the tragic end. Second, the 1950s in the PARTV Center Thursday, Dec. soundtrack doesn’t connect enough with the play. 10–Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 PM, with a 2 PM Guitarist Bobby Gutierrez, dressed like a greaser matinee on Saturday. $18. rock star, scores the show with jazzy interludes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and rock flourishes. It works when The Players continues at the Crystal Theatre Thursday, Dec. hilariously enact a play for the court in a muppet- 10–Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 PM. $15/$10 on like frenzy, but for scenes with Hamlet, the music Thursday. needs a darker, more disaffected tone instead of the goofy riffs. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Sly fox Anderson’s tedium transfers to animation

by Andy Smetanka

I waited forever for this movie to come along. Not until just recently only to a select few specialists. And even this movie, really, but a movie like it: something if choppy loops of deskbound knick-knacks are as far to grab mainstream America by its multiplex and make as 95 percent of these new iMac owners care to take it, it see that Pixar and its ilk are not the only game in that small percentage of dabblers will surely take town, splashy hyperrealism not the be-all end-all in things further.

So back to The Fantastic Mr. Fox. How I feel now animation. Cuss Wall-E and its “message,” man: I wanted something to give me those same narcotic tingles I is at a loss to explain why not only is The Fantastic Mr. got from my first glimpse of Yukon Cornelius and the Fox not my favorite stop-motion animation movie ever, Abominable Snowman or Ray Harryhausen’s battling it isn’t anywhere near the Top Five. I would recommend it to just about anybody except small children— skeletons, the process clear to even a 7-year-old.

For ages I’d been ranting that digital animation is due for a backlash, that technological advances have far outstripped any corresponding advances in originality or imagination in anything beyond the visuals, that vast realms of analogue technique await rediscovery. When the time was right, went my jeremiad, traditional stop-motion Life’s sweet when you’re not a fox on the run. animators would rise up, defenestrate Wall-E and The Incredibles (any good not because it’s “adult” in a dark or disturbing way, but upheaval starts with a defenestration) and reclaim rather in a subtle, talky Wes Anderson way. I was sure I would love it, but I only liked it, and weakly enough their lost provinces.

Coraline did not provide the spark. It sort of to surprise me afterwards.

Anderson’s last two movies have indisputably slunk into theaters and back out again, and it lacked name recognition: Director Henry Selick has lan- demonstrated progressively weaker returns on his guished for most of his career in the shadow of Tim winning formula: the signature shots, the preoccupaBurton, whose “presents” credit on Nightmare Before tion with the artifacts of bourgeois childhood, the Christmas and Corpse Bride has leapfrogged right over British Invasion soundtracks. Minus new plots, he’s Selick’s director credit in the popular imagination. basically been making the same movie since Bottle Coraline, however marvelous, lacked the necessary Rocket, and by now you either love the routine or marquee appeal to punch the mall-sized hole in main- you’re sick of it. I’m a little sick of it, myself, and I stream moviedom that my vision of vindication know I’m not alone in this. I no longer look forward to Wes Anderson movies. My cynical side, in fact, sees required. But now: Wes Anderson.

With kids just old enough to press an iMac space The Fantastic Mr. Fox as a onetime wunderkind’s bar and grasp the concept of minute adjustments now showy but slightly desperate response to the tepid making animation in their bedrooms, I believe the public and critical reception of his recent offerings. In time has come for my brand of revolution. Stop- a blind(folded) test, it would still take you less than a motion democratizes animation, moves it out of the minute to realize you were watching (rather listening realm of motion capture and green screens. Pixar-style to) a Wes Anderson movie. It’s the same old thing with animation, whatever its advantages, is completely lack- an incredible new look: not so much a stop-motion ing in that hey-maybe-I-could-do-that spirit. The tech- Wes Anderson movie, but a stop-motion version of a nology is beyond the understanding—and means—of Wes Anderson movie.

And just a little too tidy, really. Exactly as expectmost people, certainly kids. But those kids fiddling with eyesight cameras and stop-motion software in ed, the decors and figures and animation are all exquitheir bedrooms are learning the very bedrock princi- site and perfectly executed. Yet the stultifying feeling ples of animation, laws of motion set down mere min- of a changeless, all-pervasive aesthetic that put me off Wes Anderson’s movies in the first place has, unfortuutes after the invention of the movie camera.

Think about that. It’s the digital revolution that nately, adapted extremely well to the new medium. I has made this analogue revival possible. For over two don’t know how else to put this: I found The Fantastic decades—between the demise of the Super 8 camera Mr. Fox oppressive in its attention to Andersonian and the very recent introduction of affordable digital detail and tedious for its excellence in the very anacameras and stop-motion software—there was no logue techniques I’d been longing for, aggravated by handy or economical way for folks at home to make the sense they’d only been superimposed on business stop-motion animation. Analogue video cameras sim- as usual for this director. That might sound irrational, ply didn’t have the single-frame capability. Later this and maybe it is, but if this is the revolution I’ve been month, however, hundreds of thousands more people predicting, we’ve only switched jailers. will own new Christmas computers and digital camThe Fantastic Mr. Fox continues at the Village 6. eras with the basics of animation built right in. We’re talking a mass distribution of creative tools available arts@missoulanews.com

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Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 2:15, 3:15, 6:30 and 9:25 with midnight shows Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:25 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30.

LARGER THAN LIFE...IN 3-D Alt rock finds an unlikely friend in Gypsy punk as The Dave Matthews Band, Ben

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THE ROYAL BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER A toy turns into a soldier, and sweet dance moves get delivered via snowflakes and much more during The Royal Ballet’s rendition of this classic fairy tale. Carmike 10: 1 only on Sun.

NOW PLAYING 2012 John Cusack plays a divorced dad skirting the acrimony of Mother Earth as she goes cannibalistic on peeps. Carmike 10: 4:10 and 7:45 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1.

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Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:15 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30.

Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 6:50 and 9:20.

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY Your favorite pistol packing Irish brothers who only kill evil people are back in Beantown, looking to off a slayer who murdered a good priest.

Village 6 in 35mm: 7:20 and 10 with additional Sat.–Sun shows at 1:40 and 4:35.

BROTHERS Toby Maguire returns from deployment in Afghanistan, only to realize his bro Jake Gyllenhaal hooked up with his wife Natalie Portman. Who’s gonna win the dukeout?

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FANTASTIC MR. FOX Wes Anderson dips his fingers into animated kids’ flicks with this story about a shrewd, chicken-snatching fox voiced by George Clooney.

Village 6: 7:20 and 9:30 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:05, 3:10 and 5:15.

NINJA ASSASSIN An ex-sword slinger plots vindication against his old coterie after they slay his buddy, but can he kill ‘em off himself?

Village 6: 7:05 and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 7:05 and 9:35.

OLD DOGS John Travolta and Robin Williams play career junkies forced into paternity when twins land at their feet. Carmike 10: 4:30, 7:30 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at 1:30. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon–Thu. at 1:05, 3:30, 6:50 and 8:55.

OLIVIA WINTER WONDERLAND Your kids’ beloved animated oinker named Olivia hits the screen for this Christmasthemed cartoon. Village 6: 1 only on Sat.–Sun. PLANET 51 An astronaut sets foot on a new planet, only to discover aliens that embrace the corn-fed lifestyles of mainstream 1950s America.

Village 6: 4:35 only on Sat.–Sun. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. at 3 and no 9 show Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:15 and 4:35 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25 and 4:05.

A SERIOUS MAN A physics prof gets the shaft in more ways than one and turns to Judaic masters in this newest Coen brothers flick. Wilma Theatre: 9 nightly with no show Fri. and a Sun. matinee at 3.

When you’re this cool, global warming’s no concern. Invictus opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

Harper and Gogol Bordello get visually enhanced in this 3-D concert flick. Carmike 10: 5:20, 7:45 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:15.

NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU Love literally oozes from the screen as Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Shia LaBeouf and others traverse the multifaceted mountains of adoration in the Big Apple through a collection of short stories. WIlma: 7 and 9 nightly with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG New Orleans finally gets positive, postKatrina exposure in this animated tale about a prince turned frog who hopes to leap back to manhood with the help of a naïve girl, voodoo practitioner and other bayou dwellers. Carmike 10: 5:05, 5:40, 7:20, 8 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 12:35, 1:05, 2:50 and 3:20.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 12:30, 2:20, 3, 4:45, 5:20, 7:10, 7:40, 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10 and midnight and

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Sat.–Sun. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:20, 4:40 and 8:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:30 and 8. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15 and 7:15.

Carmike 10: 4:15, 7:10 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:35.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1, 4, 6:50 and 9:25 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

ARMORED Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne try to steal a wad of Benjamins from their employer, but the heist gets hijacked.

Village 6: 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:20 and 4:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25, 3:55, 6:40 and 9:20 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45.

DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL Jim Carey begs for laughs as the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge in this 3-D remake of Charles Dickens’ classic. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7 and 9:15 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:30, 6:30 and 9.

THE BLIND SIDE Sandra Bullock plays an upper-crust mom who takes in a homeless teen and helps him realize his dreams of playing pigskin.

Carmike 10: 4:20, 7:10 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:25. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:15 with additional Sat.–Sun show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:15, 3:15, 4, 6:05, 7, 8:45 and

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AN EDUCATION A teenage British girl falls for Mr. Moneybags, only to find out he might not be the one. Wilma Theatre: 7 nightly with no show on Fri. and a Sun. matinee at 1.

EVERYBODY’S FINE Robert De Niro tries to reforge a relationship with his spawn after his wife dies, but will Drew Barrymore and Kate Beckinsale bite back? Village 6: 7 and 9:30 with addi-

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON A teen whose love was sucked dry by a vampire finds pleasant distraction through motorbikes, werewolves and American Indian history. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Village 6: 7 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:15 with Sat.–Sun. show at 3.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7 and 8:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2:30, 4, 6:30, 7:30 and 9:25.

Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:15 with Sat–Sun. show at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:20.

Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Dec. 11. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts.

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THE MOBILE SAVAGE At a recent dinner, the hostess’ cousin rudely spent most of the evening thumbing through his BlackBerry. Upon returning home, I received an e-mail from an acquaintance: “How was dinner at Elaine’s?” When I asked how he knew I was there, he said Elaine’s cousin had Twittered my presence. (I’m known for my business accomplishments, but I’m a private person, and felt violated). Days later, I dined with an old business colleague, and got Twittered again. I came home to four forwarded e-mails he’d received from our former colleagues, one of whom invented from whole cloth an anecdote painting us as great friends. (He’d actually tried to get me fired.) Again, I felt my privacy had been violated. What are the rules here, for the Twitterer and their unwitting victim?

—Publicized Suddenly, everybody’s internationally famous. Not because they write like Cormac McCarthy, or they’re co-starring with Robert De Niro, or they saved 30 people’s lives, but because they posted a 30-second clip of their dog wearing sunglasses.

We’ve come to the point where everyone—from assassins and terrorists to 8year-olds—has in their pocket a level of telecommunications power that, just decades ago, would have taken up an entire wing at MIT. This is simultaneously thrilling and terrible. The average person now has the power to expose injustice, ruin lives, and upload video of you picking your nose in your car that’s viewed around the world before you even have a chance to roll and flick.

If you’re a movie star, spare us the whine that you can’t make tens of millions of dollars on a movie and also pick up a quart of milk without having 100 lenses trained on you to see whether you go for skim or 2 percent. But, as an ordinary (or relatively ordinary) citizen at a private dinner party, you do have the expectation of privacy. Sure, assume people might tell a friend or two something you said, but nobody has the right to release your whereabouts and dinner conversation to your friends, enemies, and five utter strangers who now get mobile broadband on their houseboat in Belarus.

In general, people think (other!) people are ruder than ever, but as I explain in my new book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman’s battle to beat some manners into impolite society, rudeness is actually the human condition. People are, by nature, self-absorbed, they’ve always been

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In the absence of social norms for device use and abuse, many people with these wireless binkies are essentially chimps with nukes. But, the root of manners is empathy—stepping away from yourself and your gadget and asking, “Wait…is there some tiny chance in hell this guy doesn’t want his whereabouts published for an international audience?”

Unfortunately, the thumb jockey at Elaine’s dinner apparently leapt straight to “Hmmm, he seems important…if I tweet about him, I’ll seem important!” (And then, it’s back to his regular profundities like “late to yoga” and “I had the ham.”)

Just as we’re forced to ask grown adults barking into cell phones to “please use your inside voice,” we need to get proactive about our privacy. Because it’s presumptuous to set policy for a party you aren’t giving, you might tell future hosts about your experiences with these antisocial networkers—hinting at the need to announce a “what happens at dinner stays at dinner” media embargo.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Indignation is one of the most rewarding of emotions,” writes Theodore Dalrymple, “as well as one that automatically gives meaning to life…There is nothing like irritation to get the juices circulating and the mind working.” Of all the ideas that have made me irritable and indignant in recent weeks, this one steams me the most. I disagree so completely that I am practically beside myself with paralyzing rage. And as I plunge my attention further and further into his ridiculous proposal, I feel the tension coursing through my body. I sense my mind becoming swampy, my perceptions distorted. There’s a good chance that I am inducing in myself a state of stressed-out stupidity. Please don’t follow my example, Aries. It’s possible that sour fury could be useful to you at other times, but right now you should avoid it. If you want your intelligence to work at peak efficiency in the coming days, you’ll need long stretches of tender, lucid calm.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The evidence is incontrovertible: You have definitely acquired more power in 2009. Whether that means you are now sitting in a corner office bossing around a gaggle of subordinates, I don’t know. What I do know is that you are in greater charge of your own destiny. You know yourself much better, and are smarter about providing yourself with what you need, when you need it. You have gained access to enormous new reserves of willpower, in part by harnessing the energy of your obsessive tendencies. Blind fate just doesn’t have the same control over your life as it used to. More than ever before, you’re making decisions based on what’s really good for you rather than on your unconscious compulsions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I trust you’ve traveled all over creation in 2009—or have at least exposed yourself to a wide range of novel sights and sounds near your home turf. I pray that you’ve escaped one shrunken niche, two narrow perspectives, and three low expectations. I’m also hoping that in these last 12 months, you have regularly sought out pleasant jolts and breathtaking vistas that have inspired you to see the big picture of your unfolding destiny. If you haven’t been doing these things with the eager abandon you should have, please take the next flight to the other side of the world. Eat unfamiliar food, meet people who are very different from you, listen to strange music, climb a mountain, and get your mind blown.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I bet your relationship life will be a source of revolutionary teachings in 2010. Adventures in intimacy and partnership will draw you into some highly educational fun and games. You will be invited to dramatically expand your understanding of the nature of commitment. You will also be asked to dig deeper to discover your real desires, which up until now have been partially camouflaged by more superficial longings that were grafted onto you during the darker days of adolescence. How should you prepare for the interesting tests of the next 12 months? How can you get yourself in shape to earn the demanding gifts that will be within reach? Now is an excellent time to start thinking about those questions.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To prepare for his turn to hit, a Major League baseball player slips a doughnut-shaped piece of metal over the top of his bat, making it a few pounds heavier than it normally is. He then takes a number of practice swings. The theory is that when he removes the doughnut and strides up to home plate to actually hit against a pitcher who’s throwing the ball at 90 miles per hour, the bat will feel lighter and he’ll be able to swing faster. As you prepare for your own equivalent of going up to bat, Pisces, I urge you to use this as your operative metaphor.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 2009, the cosmic powers-that-be have been conspiring to get you to expand your self-image and enlarge your understanding of your place in the world.

So I trust that in these last 12 months you have started a business or organized a support group or reinvented your physical appearance or begun your masterpiece—or done something to initiate a new phase in your long-term cycle. If for some reason you’ve been remiss about doing this work, I suggest you scramble to make up for lost time. And if you have been taking advantage of the abundant cosmic help, it’ll soon be time to move on to phase two: consolidation.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of your top accomplishments in 2009 is the way you have united parts of yourself that had not previously been very well connected. It seems you decided that you were tired of being split up into fragmented sub-personalities that had different agendas. Somehow you managed to convince them all to work together in a common cause. Now I’m quite impressed with the new spirit of cooperation that’s at work in your depths. I predict it will lead to an unprecedented singleness of purpose in 2010.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his book The Way of Transition, William Bridges defines the “neutral zone” as “that in-between time, after you’ve let go of your old life and before you have fully discovered and incorporated your new life.” Sound familiar? Maybe the neutral zone where you’re currently simmering isn’t as dramatic as that—maybe you haven’t been stripped of every single certainty and you’re not wandering in limbo. But I suspect you have at least let go of one aspect of your old familiar rhythm and have yet to ease into the one that’ll be familiar in the future. My advice? Don’t rush it. Get all you can out of this unique and educational time in the neutral zone.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident,” said filmmaker Sidney Lummet. He was talking about the craft of creating movies, but he could have also been advising you on how to make the most of the coming week. Your task, as I see it, is to set in order everything that can be set in order. Get very organized. Make sure you’re well-rehearsed. Be warmed up and highly alert. That way you’ll be ready to respond with graceful intensity when serendipitous opportunities arise within the framework you’ve put in place.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Whenever the tide goes out, the creek I live next to loses a lot of its water to the bay. It becomes a narrow trickle surrounded by stretches of mud. From a distance the mud looks like a wet black desert, but if you get up close you’ll see it’s covered with tiny furrows, pits, and bulges. This is evidence that many small creatures live there, although only the hungry ducks and egrets know exactly where to look to find them. Be like those birds, Virgo. As you survey your version of the mud flat, ignore anyone who tells you that it’s barren. Go searching for the rich pickings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It seems to me that in 2009 you’ve learned to love the fact that all the world’s a stage. You’ve found roles that have been fun to play, and you’ve expressed yourself with the nuanced zeal of a skilled actor in an elaborate theatrical production. I have very much enjoyed seeing you reveal the full range of your inner riches. If I were going to award Oscars to the astrological signs, you Libras would get the prize for “Best Performance of One’s True Self.”

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): So how are you doing with your year-long resurrection project, Cancerian? Have you been taking care of the finishing touches these past few weeks? If not, do so soon. It’s high time for you to officially and definitively rise from the dead. Your wandering in the underworld is at an end. Your mourning for broken dreams should be complete. In January, the age of exploration will begin; make sure your reborn spunk is ready for action by then.

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HOLIDAY Holiday Catering Need a holiday party catered? It’s not too late.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Seeley Lake-Missoula County Sewer District is soliciting proposals for the services of District Manager/Consultant until December 23, 2009, at 3 p.m. at P.O. Box 403, Seeley Lake, Montana 59868.

Contingent upon the award of funding from federal and state grant programs including the Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP), the State and Tribal Assistance Grant / Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) grant, and annual County tax revenue, the Sewer District is soliciting proposals for District Manager / Consultant to assist the Sewer Board in operations of the Sewer District. Most of the services will be provided in the Seeley Lake Sewer District area, although some travel is required out of the Sewer District. The services to be provided may include: Assisting Board with monthly board meetings, and other meetings to achieve its goals; Assisting Board in the acquisition of property or leases necessary for wastewater collection systems; Assisting Board to acquire and maintain funding from local, state and federal agencies for designated wastewater collection system projects; Assisting Board in designing, construction and inspection of wastewater collection systems, including working with the Engineering firm as directed; Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected respondent. Copies of the detailed request for proposals (RFP), including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, can be obtained by contacting Glen Morin, President, Seeley Lake Sewer District, P.O. Box 403, Seeley Lake, Montana 59868, (406) 6772141. The District is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minority businesses are encouraged to apply. The District makes reasonable accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with an applicant’s ability to compete in the recruitment and selection process or the respondent’s ability to perform the essential duties of the job. In order for the District to make such accommodations,

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CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 160.

Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting December 14th, 2009 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to December 17th, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

the applicant must make known any needed accommodation by contacting Glen Morin, (406) 677-2141. Persons using a relay device may contact the Montana Relay Service, 711.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING APPEAL OF FLOODPLAIN PERMIT DENIAL (MARK REILING REPRESENTING SAPPHIRE RANCH) Notice is hereby given that the Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a Public Hearing on an appeal of a Floodplain Permit denial. The appeal is from Mark Reiling representing the Sapphire Ranch, who was denied a floodplain permit to construct a 42’ x 60’ metal building in the Bitterroot River floodplain. Floodplain regulations prohibit floodplain construction when there are reasonable alternatives outside of the floodplain. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their regularly scheduled Public Meeting on Wednesday, January 6, 2010, beginning at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, e-mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 721-4043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; E-Mail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us A copy of the full application is available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants at City Hall. Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Todd Klietz, Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802; or by calling (406) 258-4841. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4877. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. Dated this 3rd day of December, 2009 /s/ Bill Carey, Chair, Missoula Board of County Commissioners MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a County Commissioners will hold a public hearing to consider consolidating precincts and polling places in Missoula County. The proposed changes to the Precincts and Polling Places are being recommended for the following reasons: Reducing the Cost of Elections, Printing of Ballots, Coding of Ballots for tabulating equipment, Coding of Ballots for Accessible Voting Equipment, Reduction of Personnel Costs (Election Judges). Recruitment & Training of Election Judges. Reducing Polling Places will provide back-up AutoMark machines for polling places. Absentee voting represents approximately 50% of voter turnout for each election. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular weekly public meeting on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 1:30 p.m., Room 201, MISSOULA County Courthouse. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the consolidation of precincts and polling places.

Written comments will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 210, Missoula County Courthouse, prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 721-5700, Ext. 3234 Date: November 25, 2009 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF TEMPORARY REGULATORY SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION Public notice is hereby given that a temporary regulatory speed limit reduction has been approved by the Missoula County Board of Commissioner per resolution No. 2009-173, allowing a speed limit reduction from 35 MPH to 25 MPH from the Upper/Lower Miller Creek Road Wye south along Upper Miller Creek Road to Mockingbird Lane. Fines will be enforced for nonconformance with the temporary speed reduction, and these fines will be doubled within the construction work zone.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT An audit of Goodan-Keil County Water District has been conducted by Nicole M. Noonan, CPA. The audit covered the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008. The audit report is on file in its entirety and open to public inspection and Goodan-Keil County Water District will send a copy of the audit report to any interested person upon request. Request may be made by contacting Michele Hand at: Goodan-Keil County Water District, PO Box 16093, Missoula, MT, 59808. Email requests should be sent to: qbteachmt@bresnan.net. Sincerely, Pri Fernando, Treasurer.

Montana 6th Judicial District Count, Park County Your Case No. DG-09-16 NOTICE OF HEARING In the Matter of Guardianship of: Baylee Anne Phelan, a Minor, Cynthia D. Kruhmin, Petitioner.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: On November 26th, 2009, Petitioner, Cynthia D. Kruhmin filed a Petition asking to be appointed guardian of the above-named minor child. The Petition has been set for hearing in the Montana 6th Judicial District Court, Park County, Montana, located at 414 East Callendar Street, Livingston, Montana, on December 21st, 2009 at 11:30 o’clock am. A copy of the Order Setting Hearing is attached hereto.

Further documents filed in this case can be reviewed upon request by contacting the Clerk of the Court for Park County at the address listed above. DATED This 25th day of November, 2009.

Cynthia D. Kruhmin Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-09-1240 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. CitiFinancial, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Kurt Olsen, a/k/a Kurt E. Olsen; Susan Olsen, a/k/a Susan M. Olsen; and all persons unknown, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in the action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action relates to the establishment of an equitable lien, foreclosure of an equitable lien, and quieting title on a mobile home upon the following described real property in the County of Missoula, State of Montana: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 17 IN BLOCK 3 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The Mobile Home is identified as follows: Year: 1975, Title: unknown, Mobile Home ID#: Serial # 42942, Make: Fleetwood, Style: Doublewide. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 27th day of November, 2009. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy. Dated this 10th day of November, 2009.

MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM, Attorneys for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 1097, Dickinson, ND 586021097. Tel: (701)227-1841 MT BAR ID #2429. /s/ Charles J. Peterson, Attorney for the Plaintiff.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN08-41 Dept. No. 3 SUMMONS IN THE MATTER OF S.G., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: PEPPER CARR YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer St., Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Permanent Legal Custody and Termination of Parental Rights with Right to Consent to Adoption or Guardianship; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 19th day of January, 2010 at 2:30 o’clock p.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why your parental rights to S.G. should not be terminated; and why the Petition should not be granted. S.G. was born on December 6, 2001 in Libby, Montana. Pepper Carr is represented by Court-appointed attorney Brian Smith, 610 Woody St., Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable John W. Larson, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 25TH day of November, 2009. /s/ HON. JOHN W. LARSON District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause Probate No. DP-09-190 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID C. GILLIGAN, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Carma Jean Gilligan, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Ave., Suuite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED November 18th, 2009. /s/ Carma Jean Gilligan, Personal Representative.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Case No. DV-09-1349 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Jesse David Janssen Sr., Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Jesse David Janssen, Sr. has petitioned the District Court for the 4th Judicial District for a change of name from Jesse David Janssen, Sr. to Jesse David Nenemay, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 31st day of December, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula in courtroom number 2S. At any time before the hearing objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 19th day of November, 2009. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Michelle Vipp, Deputy Clerk of Court.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-09-179 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SHIRLEY O. DELANEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DONALD L. DELANEY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Marsillo & Schuyer, PLLC, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 21st day of October, 2009. /s/ Donald L. Delaney, Personal Representative NOTICE OF DEFAULT, ELECTION TO SELL AND NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MONTANA TRUST INDENTURE Pursuant to the terms and conditions of that certain Montana Trust Indenture hereinafter identified and referred to, the Trustee thereunder, hereby gives Notice of Default, Election to Sell and Notice of Sale as to that Trust Indenture as follows: TRUST INDENTURE The GRANTOR is DAVID W. STEWART, of 3017 River Bend Drive, Bonner, Montana 59823, the original TRUSTEE is STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC., of 320 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59801, the successor TRUSTEE is DAVID L. VICEVICH, Attorney At Law, of 2801 South Montana Street, Butte, Montana 59701, and the BENEFICIARIES are ROBERT NEHLS and DONNA NEHLS, whose mailing addresses are 166 Lyndale Road, Butte, Montana 59701, as to an undivided 50% interest under that Montana Trust Indenture dated July 23, 2008, and VERNON OPP, whose mailing address is 3405 Vista Lane, Butte, Montana 59701, as to an undivided 50% interest under that Montana Trust Indenture dated July 23, 2008. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY Lot 5 of River Bend Addition, a Platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. RECORDING INFORMATION The Trust Indenture herein referred to, of Montana Trust Indenture dated July 23, 2008 is recorded in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, in Book 823, Page 660, and was so recorded on July 23, 2008. DEFAULT AND SUM OWING The Default for which this foreclosure sale is made is failure by the GRANTOR, or any person, to pay the monthly installments due on the Promissory Note for which the Trust Indenture was given as security. The following sums are now due and owing to the present BENEFICIARIES, from the GRANTOR or his successors, in interest on the obligations secured by the said Trust indenture; A total breakdown of the delinquency is as follows: The Principal amount due is $13,533.28; the interest due is $13,420.55; and late charges due are $511.64; and escrow fees and IRS penalties due are $236.00; if any, for a total delinquent balance of $27,701.47 as of August 24, 2009. The remaining principal balance plus interest and fees on this Promissory Note was $159,168.19. The remaining principal balance plus interest on said note is now due and owing together with costs and expenses incurred by the TRUSTEE and/or BENEFICIARIES, with accrued interest at the rate of Fourteen (14%) percent per annum, from the date of expenditure thereof, and reasonable TRUSTEE’s and attorney’s fee as provided for by Mont. Code Ann. § 71-1-320 and the sum owing on the obligations under said Trust Indenture is as above stated. ELECTION TO SELL That by reason of the Default as hereinabove set forth, as to said Trust Indenture the BENEFICIARIES have elected to consider all of the principal and interest due, in accordance with the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture, and the Promissory Note secured thereby, and have elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligations and have requested the TRUSTEE to proceed to do so.

DATE AND TIME OF SALE The TRUSTEE will sell said property on January 22, 2010 at 11:00 a.m., Mountain Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time, whichever is in effect at said time and place.

PLACE OF SALE The sale will be held at the principal place of business of the TRUSTEE, at the Broadway Street entrance to the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. TERMS OF SALE This sale is a public sale and any person, including the BENEFICIARIES, (excepting only the undersigned TRUSTEE) may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash with conveyance being made by TRUSTEE’s Deed. The sale purchasers shall be entitled to possession of the property on the tenth (10th) day following the sale, and any person remaining in possession after that date, shall be deemed to be a tenant at will. The original of the Notice is recorded in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, and a copy of this notice has been mailed by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested to the GRANTOR at 3017 River Bend Drive, Bonner, Montana 59823; and to the County Treasurer of Missoula County, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED THIS 24th DAY OF August, 2009. /s/ DAVID L. VICEVICH, TRUSTEE STATE OF MONTANA ) :ss. County of Silver Bow) On this 24th day of August, 2009, before me the undersigned, a notary public in and for the State of Montana personally appeared the

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TRUSTEE, DAVID L. VICEVICH, of Butte, Montana, and acknowledged to me that he executed the foregoing instrument. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunder set my hand and affixed my notarial seal on the day and year first above written. {Seal} /s/ Sandy James Notary Public for the State of Montana Printed Name: Sandy James Residing at: Butte My Commission Expires: 8/10/2011

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated January 7, 2008 Grantor: Brian Holm, 1255 Big Flat Road, Missoula, Montana 59804 Original Trustee: Title Services, Inc. P.O. Box 8223, Missoula, Montana 59807 Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula 3220 Great Northern Way, Missoula, Montana 59808 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957, Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 Date and Place of Recordation: January 18, 2008 in Book 811, Page 1521, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 30th day of March, 2010, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the abovedescribed instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Tract 3C of Certificate of Survey No. 2151 located in the Northeast one-quarter of Section 20 and the Northwest one-quarter of Section 21, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. SUBJECT TO a Deed of Trust between Brian E. Holm, Grantor, and CitiMortgage, Grantee, dated November 1, 2004 and recorded November 8, 2004 in Book 743, Page 114, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of One Thousand One Hundred Sixty-eight and 75/100ths Dollars ($1,168.75) for the months of May 2009 through October 2009; together with late charges in the amount of Three Hundred Fortysix and 06/100ths Dollars ($346.06). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Two Hundred Forty-nine Thousand Seventy and 35/100ths Dollars ($249,070.35), plus interest thereon at the rate of Seven and one-half percent (7.5%) per annum from and after the 16th day of March, 2009 to October 19, 2009, in the amount of Eleven Thousand Seventy-two and 86/100ths Dollars ($11,072.86), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Fifty-one and 18/100ths Dollars ($51.18), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.

DATED this 26th day of October, 2009. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley, Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC, P.O. Box 8957, Missoula, Montana 59807-8957 STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 26th day of October, 2009, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. (SEAL) /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. Residing at Lolo, Montana My commission expires January 6, 2013.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/08/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200613760, Book 776, Page 568, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Lindsey Doe, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 44A of Cook’s Addition, Block 1, Lots 40 through 45, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 7, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $149,323.53.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $136,231.84, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any).

Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including fore-

closure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.01566) 1002.114050FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/22/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200534296 Bk. 766, Pg. 944, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Karen L. Rausch, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit B as shown and defined in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. as recorded June 5, 2009 in Book 840 of Micro Records, Page 1322, records of Missoula County, Montana and as amended by Amendment to KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc., Declaration of Unit Ownership recorded July 6, 2009, located on the South one-half of Lot 2 in Block 1 of Mosby’s Leisure Highlands Addition No. 5, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with an interest in the General Common Elements and an interest in the Limited Common Elements as set forth in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200822123, Book 826, Page 1307, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, NA, as Trustee for NHEL Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-WF1.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 5, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $130,229.51. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $110,092.74, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.17630) 1002.99755-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/22/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200534297 Bk. 766, Pg. 945, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Karen L. Rausch, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit A as shown and defined in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. as recorded June 5, 2009 in Book 840 of Micro Records, Page 1322, records of Missoula County, Montana and as amended by Amendment to KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc., Declaration of Unit Ownership recorded July 6, 2009, located on the South one-half of Lot 2 in Block 1 of Mosby’s Leisure Highlands Addition No. 5, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with an interest in the General Common Elements and an interest in the Limited Common Elements as set forth in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200822127, Book 826, Page 1311, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, NA, as Trustee for NHEL Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-WF1.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 5, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $181,082.14. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $146,664.08, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.17629) 1002.99756-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/08/99, recorded as Instrument No. BK 568, PG 2227, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Richard A. Sandefur and Wendy L. Sandefur, husband and wife was Grantor, North America Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 of Huson Heights, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200704460, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 6, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $102,424.15. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $98,623.37, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.06728) 1002.135536-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/02/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200900662, B 831, P 1092, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick J. Daugherty, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real proper-

PUBLIC NOTICES ty (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 in Block 2 of Alff Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 16, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $224,815.34.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $220,351.17, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any).

Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.07709) 1002.136225FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/08/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200508154; Bk 750 Pg 787, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Steven A. Walton, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 34 in Block 12 of Greenwood Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 21, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $132,976.28. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $126,737.10, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on March 2, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.07288) 1002.136581-FEI Notice of Trustee’s Sale T.S. No. 09 -0006140 Title Order No. 090053974 THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 03/31/2010, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real

property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT.RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DEAN O BAKER, AND DARLA J BAKER as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/13/2005 and recorded 07/14/2005, in document No. 200517442 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 755 at Page Number 1490 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 1 OF CANYON VIEW SUBDIVISION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 714 MONTANA AVE, MISSOULA, MT 598025525 The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $136,718.89 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.625% per annum from 07/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 11/26/2009 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-98507-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3344699 11/26/2009, 12/03/2009, 12/10/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 1, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 36 B of Country Crest No. 3 A. Lots 36 A & 36 B. A Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana.

According to the official recorded plat thereof.

Stephanie T Descharme and Aaron Jones, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Deborah J. Bishop, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 16, 2007 and Recorded November 21, 2007 in Book 809, page 264 in Document No.200730363. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services, LLC. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3830.94, beginning February 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 22, 2009 is $451,755.78 principal, interest at the rate of 7.875% now totaling $22,799.37, Sate charges in the amount of $330.64, escrow advances of $3,009.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $226.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $98.82 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale,

may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 22, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On September 22, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3356268 12/03/2009, 12/10/2009, 12/17/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 1, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 1A-1 Certificate of Survey No. 5439, located in and being a Portion of the N1/2 of Section 27, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. MURIEL J SIMMONS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 6, 2008 and recorded May 12, 2008 in Book 818, Page 1056, under Document No. 200810680. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC MORTGAGE, LLC. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,079.61, beginning June 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 30, 2009 is $182,735.57 principal, interest at the rate of 5.750% now totaling $4,337.27, late charges in the amount of $269.90, escrow advances of $126.19, other fees and expenses advanced of $1,416.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.79 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 24, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On September 24, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3358261 12/03/2009, 12/10/2009, 12/17/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 8, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 1, 2, 15 and 16 in Block 6 of SCHMAUTZ ADDITION NO.2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded to the official recorded plat thereof Sherman R. Hagen and Florence J. Hagen, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as

Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 19, 2003 and recorded November 26, 2003 at 3:10 o’clock P.M. in Book 722, Page 1728 as Document No. 200345192. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee under the applicable agreement. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,415.88, beginning February 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 15, 2009 is $232,093.73 principal, interest at the rate of 10.375% now totaling $38,210.55, late charges in the amount of $2761.96, escrow advances of $2283.65, suspense balance of $425.73 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2850.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $65.97 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately

upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents {valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On September 30, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3366097 12/10/2009, 12/17/2009, 12/24/2009

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Wednesday, the 10th day of February, 2010, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has elected to sell and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale to said Successor Trustee without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or otherwise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and of the Grantor RICK J. BOWLER, in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula County, Montana, to wit: PARCEL I: Lot 4 of CLARK FORK MEADOWS, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. PARCEL II: A private access and utility easement to said Lot 4 over and across the Northerly 20 feet of Lots 1 and 3 of said CLARK FORK MEADOWS, as set forth on said plat. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, including The Small Tract Financing Act, Montana Code Annotated 71-1-301, et seq., and the terms and provisions of: that certain Montana Trust Indenture dated April 24, 2006, and recorded April 24, 2006, in Book 772 at page 2292, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, wherein Barrier Lending, LLC and Lake Road Properties are the named Beneficiaries, and Insured Titles, LLC is named the Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee recorded September 13, 2007, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, as Document No. 200723904, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Insured Titles, LLC with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclo-

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sure is made because the Grantor, RICK J. BOWLER has defaulted in the terms of said Montana Trust Indenture and the corresponding Promissory Note in that he has failed to pay monthly payments when due on the Promissory Note secured by the Montana Trust Indenture. The principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Montana Trust Indenture is the sum of One Hundred Twenty-eight Thousand Ninety-six and 89/100 Dollars ($128,096.89), together with interest at the rate of Eleven percent (11%) per annum until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of One Hundred Twenty-eight Thousand Ninetysix and 89/100 Dollars ($128,096.89) in principal; Nine Thousand Six Hundred Four and 52/100 Dollars ($9,604.52) in interest; Four Hundred and No/100 ($400.00) in late fees and Fifty-four Dollars ($54.00) in monthly escrow fees totaling the sum of One Hundred Thirty-eight Thousand One Hundred Fifty-five and 41/100 Dollars ($138,155.41), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 8th day of October, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula). On this 8th day of October, 2009, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula. My commission expires: January 24, 2012

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17-foot ceilings, office/den, master suite, 2-car garage. 44 Ranch, $297,000! Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com 4 Bedroom, cedar home on 11 acres, double garage. Private location with lots of surrounding trees. $349,900 MLS#901764 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com.

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Mature trees. $219,900 MLS#906641. Windermere RE Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Text:44133 Message:12591 for pics AMAZING HOME OVERLOOKING ALBERTON GORGE. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Double Garage, Vaulted Ceilings, Spectacular Views from inside and out, Outdoor Pool & Hot Tub, Decks & Patios, and much more. $395,000.

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Beautifully remodeled and updated Contract homeUnder with build-outs and sky lights. 3 bedroom 2 bathroom. $229,900. Pat McCormick 240-SOLD (7653) pat@properties2000.com BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED TARGET RANGE HOME. WALK TO THE RIVER. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, 4 Carg Garage, Sun Room with Hot Tub, great family room with full wet bar and much more. $334,900.

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www.mindypalmer.com Featured Listing! Turn Key 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath condo w/garage. Central location. $156,000. MLS#908062.

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www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS LOLO HOME WITH PRIVATE LAKE FRONTAGE. 4 Bdr/2.5 Bath, Double Garage. New roof, new interior & exterior paint, new baths, wrap-around covered porch, tons of storage. $339,900.

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JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 PRICE REDUCED! New home in Riverwalk Estates with no steps and easy maintenance, 3 bed/2 bath/double garage. 6549 Kiki Court, Missoula. $329,500.

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Price Reduction! 3bd/2bth, Double Garage, Patio, Fenced, UG Sprinklers, Quite, Hellgate Elem.

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GREAT NORTHSIDE LOCATION. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, Heated garage/shop, huge back yard, lots of trees, Walk/Bike to Downtown Missoula. $180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy2 to 74362, or visit...

SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Open floor plan, large living room, great mountain and valley views. $239,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy15 to 74362, or visit...

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HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM HOME ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, 3.3 Acres, slate and hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, guest quarters, heated double garage, $695,000.

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SOUTH HILLS CONDO WITH A SINGLE GARAGE . 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2 balconies. great views, master with walkin closet & master bath, laundry, and much more. $199,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy18 to 74362, or visit...

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One acre commercial lot between Lolo and Florence on Old Hwy 93. Can also be used for residential along with commercial use. $124,900. MLS#905542.

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SOUTH HILLS CONDO WITH A SINGLE GARAGE . 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2 balconies. great views, master with walkin closet & master bath, laundry, and much more. $199,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy18 to

One owner - built 10 years ago, 5 acres on a branch of the Clark Fork.

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New land/home package in Riverwalk Estates. No steps, concrete entrances with covered porch & patio. 3 bed/2 bath/double garage. 6605 Kiki Court W., Missoula. Starting at $299,970.

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www.mindypalmer.com Well-maintained 3BD house, 45 minutes from Missoula, hardwood floors, storage shed, updated appliances. $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185. www.YourMT.com

LAND FOR SALE 19,602 SQ FT lot in Mullan Road area with great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf and shopping $89,900 MLS# 908063 riceteam@windermere.com Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503.

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Awesome building spot overlooking creek and with valley/mountain views. Builder available. $185,000.

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www.mindypalmer.com 5BD/3BA 3,000+ sq. ft. Lolo home on 15.6 Acres, updated kitchen, cozy fireplace, $415,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com Beautiful 20 acres fenced pasture land. Seasonal stream and pond.

Great get away or build your dream home. No power to area. $170 per year road maintenance fee. $149,900 MLS# 905366 Janet 532-

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Near school & park • 1852 S. 8th West $179,900 • MLS#904867 Gardens, Flowers, & Fruit Trees Charming 1925 U home. • 737 Evans, 1 block to U $399,870 • MLS#902594 2 lush lots w/gardens, fruit trees and arbor. 4 bd, 2 bth.

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OUT OF TOWN

Beautiful park-like setting, private trout ponds, nature trail, stunning views. Lots start at $39,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185. www.YourMT.com

800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.YourMT.com

COMMERCIAL 3 Quizno’s Franchise Businesses For Sale! $650,000- Missoula, MT. Call Loubelle for info: 240-0753.

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PRICE REDUCED! Tanning salon, $55,000- top of the line equipment, excellent client base. 10 years same location- an EXCELLENT VALUE! Call Loubelle at Fidelity RE 240-0753 or 543-4412. www.missoulahomes.com Rare income producing property in town. Call Beverly Kiker @ Prudential Missoula. (406) 544-0708

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Gorgeous leveled 80 acres of farming land in St. Ignatious with 3 Bed/ 2 Bath manufactured home. Amazing views of the Mission Mountains.

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$219,900 • MLS# 906692

3 bd, 2 bth, Double Garage Stainless Kitchen Appliances Patio, Fenced, UG Sprinklers Quite, Hellgate Elem. School 4012 Lancaster Rd Missoula

Pat McCormick • 406.240.7653 pat@properties2000.com • www.properties2000.com

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330 N. Easy St. • $195,900

Wonderful location at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. This home has been well cared for and has many updates such as paint, appliances, lighting, A/C and underground sprinklers. It is over 1,000 sq. ft. and has a large insulated/sheet rocked garage plus a huge storage shed for over flow.

There is a master bedroom, plus 2 additional bedrooms and a full bath. Large yard bordering open space and lovely views of the mountains. Property has access to river front park. Call today for your private showing. MLS# 907496

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• 1+ acre lot in country setting • Near fishing, golf course & park • City sewer available • Great location and views • $99,999 • MLS#908159 Text:44133 Message: 12885 for pics

• 40x82 insulated free span building • 1 acre with security fence • Three 14' overhead doors • 9292 Futurity Drive • $324,900 MLS#901478 Text:44133 Message: 12595 for pics

• Cute 2 bdrm mobile on 4 acres • Large double detached garage • Irrigation well on property • Owner financing available OAC • REDUCED TO $169,900 • MLS# 905771 Text:44133 Message: 12884 for pics

• PRICE REDUCED 2 bdrm 2 bath home • Addition for possible den or office • Shop & extra storage in dbl garage • Zoned for multifamily or commercial • $129,900 • MLS#906610 Text:44133 Message: 12594 for pics

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358 Mari Court, Msla $305,900 • MLS# 908482 Beautiful Home

Two 5 acre parcels

15 minutes from Missoula with nice building sites and access to the Blackfoot River. $149,000 for either 5 acre parcel or buy both for $285,000. MLS# 902286

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Granite counters, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors, stone fireplace. Built-in lockers off garage entrance, lots of storage, 2 hot water heaters, RV pad, RV dump and a hot & cold water spicket, backyard adjourns a park.

110 South Ave West, Msla $320,000 • MLS# 905618 Building & Land For Sale Commercial office building in a great location on South & Higgins. It offers lots of paved parking, handicap ramp with handicap restroom.

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